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5 Great Reasons Why You Should Cold Brew Tea | Eco-Cha Teas
Quality cold brew tea, like coffee, is increasingly popular these days. Even the purists among us have happily discovered that it isn't necessarily inferior to the preferred paraphernalia-laden Gongfu method of brewing tea. There are a few ways to brew loose leaf tea, and cold brew is just another variation with benefits of its own. So let's take a quick look at why cold brew appeals to tea lovers of all types.
Happy Dragon Boat Festival! | Eco-Cha Teas
Dragon Boat Festival Special Offer
A few weeks ago we came across something fantastic that we knew we had to offer to our customers as part of the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival. We'll be announcing a special offer this Thursday (June 14th) first through our newsletter. So, if you haven't already signed up for our newsletter, sign up now here so you can get first dibs on this exciting item. If you sign up, you'll also get $5 off your first order. Not only is this item functional, and useful, it's sure to become a collectors item!
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Sustainability and Responsible Farming—What Does it Entail?
Is sustainable tea farming the same thing as responsible farming? We've worked with some of the most progressive tea farmers in Taiwan and come up with a few things we think makes a sustainable loose leaf tea opperations. Let us take you inside what we think tea farming should be all about.
A Guide to Unroasted Taiwan Oolong Tea
How to Cure a Gong Fu (Yixing) Teapot
Traditional Oolong Tea Making Workshop In Taiwan
Eco-Cha recently attended a Traditional Dong Ding Oolong Tea making workshop conducted by the (Taiwan) Lugu Farmers' Association Dong Ding Oolong Tea Competition judging team. Join us as some of the world's premier oolong tea makers and judges teach their craft to the next generation.
How Alishan Oolong Tea Competitions Are Judged
Taiwan is one of the world's premier Oolong Tea producing regions. As such, tea makers in Taiwan are producing some of the best oolong tea in the world. Taiwan is also the home to tea competitions that makers from all over the island enter their best teas into. First prize at at the largest competitions goes for up to $10,000 USD for 600 grams.
Cold Brew Tea Bottle
Red Oolong Tea: Gem Of Taiwan's Southeast Coast
Red Oolong offers a smooth, balanced, mildly sweet, rich but not quite bold flavor profile, with elements of fruit compote, pumpkin pie, and a hint of dried flowers. This ultra-friendly character, combined with the fact that almost all Red Oolong is cultivated naturally on the southeast coast of Taiwan, facing the wide open Pacific, where the sky reminds a North American of the northern west coast, is no wonder why it is rapidly gaining popularity on the international market. Once again, Taiwan leads the way in Oolong Tea innovation!
The World's Largest Oolong Tea Competition
Shan Lin Xi Winter Harvest Pictorial
Above we see a local tea picker turning in freshly picked leaves to be weighed and recorded for commission. These new-growth, tender leaves were harvested on a beautiful sunny day at about 1500 meters elevation in the Shan Lin Xi tea growing region in southern Nantou County, central Taiwan.