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Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong | Eco-Cha Teas

Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong | Eco-Cha Teas

July 21, 2022

It's the above award that inspired us to have the second half of our winter 2021 stock of Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong roasted by our close friend who cultivated it. He entered his own roasted version from this same crop into the Lugu Farmers" Association Dong Ding Oolong Tea competition and received Top Category Award (within the top 2% of all entries). When we heard the news, we promptly requested his services to roast the remainder of our procured share in the same fashion as this top award winning tea!

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Tie Guan Yin Oolong tea leaves being processed into tea

Taiwan Tie Guan Yin Oolong Spring 2022 | Eco-Cha Teas

July 14, 2022

Taiwan's Tie Guan Yin Oolong, as it is made in the Muzha tradition, is the most heavily oxidized and heavily roasted of all Taiwan's renowned Oolong (partially oxidized) tea types. The photo above shows the leaves when they are approaching the desired degree of oxidation, before the tumble heating/kill green step of Oolong Tea making.

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Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

July 11, 2022

This month's edition of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea made from spring 2022 harvest. This batch won an award in the local competition, although not as prestigious as last spring's entry — which won Top Category Prize (within the top 2 % of all entries). Our friend from whom we source this tea said that the tea judge was a newbie, and it's hard to know how they will rate the teas. 

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Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

July 11, 2022

Batch 80 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea from spring 2022 harvest. We sourced this batch at the same time we sourced our in store stock of spring Baozhong. While were tasting the different days of harvest, our friend told us that he will enter this batch into the local competition. We promptly asked if he had enough to share with us, and he did!

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Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

June 14, 2022

Batch 79 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong Tea. As explained in the sourcing post, this batch is the roasted version of Eco-Cha's winter 2021 stock of Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong. We were inspired to dedicate our reserve stock of Shan Lin Xi winter tea to the the Tea Club, upon learning that our friend achieved Top Category Award in the world's largest and most prestigious Oolong Tea competition! So we asked him to roast our stock just how he roasted his competition tea — which increased its value about 5 times of the original unroasted version!

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Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong | Eco-Cha Tea Club

June 12, 2022

Batch 79 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong Tea. It is the roasted version of our winter 2021 batch we offered in our store. Our friend from whom we sourced this tea submitted a single entry from this same harvest into the Lugu Farmers' Association Dong Ding Oolong Tea Competition and achieved Top Category Award (shown above). When our friend told us this exciting news, we asked him if we could hire his services to roast our reserve stock the same way he roasted his top award winning tea. So this month's edition of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is from the same harvest and roasted the same way as the tea that ranked within the top 2% out of over 5000 entries. 

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Traditional Dong Ding Oolong Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Traditional Dong Ding Oolong Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

May 17, 2022

Batch 78 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Traditional Dong Ding Oolong Tea harvested in April 2022. What makes this tea type different from our standard offering of Ding Ding Oolong is that the traditional version is significantly more oxidized and left unroasted. This is how it was made by the local artisans prior to its commercial promotion that began some 40 years ago. 

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Traditional Dong Ding Oolong | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Traditional Dong Ding Oolong | Eco-Cha Tea Club

May 16, 2022

The figure in the foreground of the photo above is the matriarch of this family of Traditional Dong Ding Oolong Tea makers. This pic was snapped a few years ago, and she is now in her late eighties, so she is not the tea picking queen she once was, but she is as talkative and friendly as ever!

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Taiwan Dong Ding Oolong Spring 2022 | Eco-Cha Teas

Taiwan Dong Ding Oolong Spring 2022 | Eco-Cha Teas

May 12, 2022

With the arrival of our spring batch of Taiwan Dong Ding Oolong Tea, we were inspired to brew it alongside our Traditional Dong Ding Oolong as well as our current edition of the Eco-Cha Tea Club — which also happens to be a Traditional Dong Ding Oolong. All three teas were harvested this spring from the same community in Lugu, Taiwan.

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Dong Dong Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Dong Dong Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

April 15, 2022

The character of this tea expresses the dedication of this next-generation tea artisan who is truly embodying his craft to achieve a family recipe that not only clearly sets him apart from market grade oolongs, but even from his local neighbors and colleagues. He is usurping the resources of his inheritance to create a truly distinctive character of tea.

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Dong Ding Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Dong Ding Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

April 14, 2022

Shown above is the father, son and uncle facilitating a harvest from this new plot of tea a few years ago. It's just this type of local scene that is the heart of our inspiration. This is what it's all about!

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Lalashan Light Roast High Mountain Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Lalashan Light Roast High Mountain Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

March 15, 2022

Batch 76 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Lalashan Light Roast High Mountain Oolong Tea, winter 2021 harvest. When we tasted the freshly picked and cured tea in the farmer's home, we appreciated the full-bodied, balanced character of it, although it was still slightly "muddled" due to the remaining moisture content in the leaves. This moisture was locked in the stem material — which was plentiful. So we decided to have the stems removed and do a light roasting to bring the leaves to what we perceived as their fullest potential.

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