Eco-Cha Tea Club

Dong Pian is the Chinese name given to crops of tea that are harvested at least two weeks after the start of winter (立冬) according the the calendar of 24 Solar Terms. This batch of tea was harvested a full month after this date. So it is a proper Late Winter (Dong Pian) harvest. The weather this late in the year, combined with this crop being bug bitten, and processed by a traditional Oolong Tea master have given us a singular batch of exemplary Oolong Tea in the Lugu tradtion!

Batch 87 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Dong Ding Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea made from spring 2022 harvest in Yonglong Village, Lugu Township, Taiwan. This is the fourth time we are sharing this type of tea over the seven plus years of the tea club. We first offered it in December 2015, and a second time in January 2018. These two batches were made by the patriarch of the Su Clan, and that January 2018 batch was the last batch of tea we procured from this local legend of a tea maker. Batch 77 was made by his nephew, as is this current batch. We've  known and learned about tea from the Su Family for a decade now. 

Batch 85 kicks off our eighth year running of the Eco-Cha Tea Club, and we are celebrating with Mr. Lin's seventh winter harvest from his certified organic tea farm. You can learn all about our connection to this tea farmer and his work in our sourcing blogpost.

Batch 84 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Red Jade #18 Black Tea from the historical Sun Moon Lake tea growing region of Taiwan. This cultivar, given the name Red Jade (紅玉) is registered as hybrid #18 by Taiwan's Tea Research and Extension Station. You can learn all about its background in our recent blogpost, but this Black Tea hybrid strain is unique to Taiwan, and was "born" in the 20th century. It has become quite popular over the last 20 years since it was first commercially introduced in the early 2000's.