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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 0 Comments

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

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

March 15, 2022 0 Comments

Batch 76 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a first for us, in the sense that we have never sourced tea from the Lalashan region before. Lalashan is the northernmost high elevation tea growing area on the island of Taiwan, and has a significantly colder and usually wetter climate than all other regions. Snowfall on Taiwan's High Mountain Tea farms is a rare occasion. In fact, only a small portion of Taiwan tea farms have ever seen snow. We share this image to represent the location and climate in the Lalashan that sets it apart. The photo above was taken in 2016.

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Tie Guan Yin Oolong Winter 2021 | Eco-Cha Teas

Tie Guan Yin Oolong Winter 2021 | Eco-Cha Teas

February 21, 2022 0 Comments

Given the fact that Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea entails the most extensive processing methods, offering a rich, bold, and complex character — we've found that letting a newly made batch settle for a few months allows it to achieve optimal results. So, we only just now offering our winter 2021 batch. And just for fun, we did a cupping together with our winter 2018 and our spring 2020 past batches

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Ying Xiang Dong Pian Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco- Cha Tea Club

Ying Xiang Dong Pian Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco- Cha Tea Club

February 18, 2022 0 Comments

Batch 75 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is offered during the month of Lunar New Year, and we expressly chose this tea for the occasion. Ying Xiang Dong Pian Oolong is a fresh, vibrant, full-bodied unroasted Oolong that was harvested at the very end of the growing season. The colder weather during its growing season gives it a distinctive profile that exemplifies the name Dong Pian, or late winter harvest.

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Ying Xiang Dong Pian Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Ying Xiang Dong Pian Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

February 18, 2022 0 Comments

Batch 75 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Ying Xiang Dong Pian Oolong Tea from Yong Long Village in Lugu, Taiwan —at 700m elevation. Ying Xiang (迎香) means "Alluring Aroma", and is the name given to Tai Cha #20. This is a relatively recent hybrid tea cultivar introduced by Taiwan's Tea Research and Extension Station less than 10 years ago, and has slowly but surely gained popularity — especially at mid-elevation tea growing regions. 

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Lantern Festival, Calligraphy, and Taiwan Tea Culture

Lantern Festival, Calligraphy, and Taiwan Tea Culture

February 15, 2022 0 Comments

The calligraphy on red door paper was hand-brushed by our tea mentor in celebration of the Lunar New Year. They were sent on their way to our supporters who ordered them. Tony chose an abbreviated line of a poem by the famous poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty.

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Tea and Chinese Calligraphy

Tea and Chinese Calligraphy

January 28, 2022 0 Comments

Above is a preview of the calligraphy our tea mentor, Tony Lin prepared for us this Lunar New Year. The first words of each of the three phrases comprise our brand name in Chinese: 一口茶 — which is a homonym for Eco-Cha! The Chinese meaning is simply "A Sip Of Tea".

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Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club

January 15, 2022 0 Comments

Batch 74, six plus years of sourcing singular batch teas to share with the Eco-Cha Tea Club each month ... And we find ourselves just sitting and staring at these dried leaves.... Reminding us that we are not at all tired of exploring the world of boutique tea, and sharing our experience of the things we find to be particularly special. This batch of Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea pretty much covers the bases in this respect. It is very small batch, harvested by a family of organic tea farmers that are literally trailblazers in their community. AND, we think they make the best GABA tea we've ever tasted!

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Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club

January 14, 2022 0 Comments

Batch 74 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea. We coined the term Eco-Farmed to represent tea that is sourced from a certified organic tea farm, without representing the certification itself. This farm is not only certified organic, but it is managed with the most natural farming methods we've seen in the local tea industry here in Taiwan. He has pioneered these farming methods, and after 20 years of challenging research, is now successfully managing several plots of tea and producing specialty types of organic tea.

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Taiwan high mountain tea harvest in a tea field

Top 5 Taiwan Teas in 2021 | Eco-Cha Teas

January 13, 2022 0 Comments

Taiwan many kinds of tea but have you ever wondered what's the most popular? Well, we've compiled an overview of our top 5 best selling Taiwan Teas of 2021 to offer some perspective on the popular names in Taiwan Tea.

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Eco-Cha Teas limited edition teas

Limited Edition Taiwan Tea Launch | Eco-Cha Teas

December 16, 2021 0 Comments

Eco-Cha is launching a new category of Taiwan Tea in our store! More often than not, our favorite teas are only available in small quantities. This means that they are likely to sell out occasionally, until we are able to procure the next batch. Each batch is noticeably different from each other, while being the same type of tea. So we decided to create a "Limited Edition" category designated to distinctive quality teas that are in limited supply.

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Osmanthus flower bloosoms

Alishan Jin Xuan Osmanthus Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Teas

December 15, 2021 0 Comments

Batch 73 begins our seventh year of the Eco-Cha Tea Club, and we get to celebrate the occasion with a type of tea we've never sourced before. It's a soothing, delicate, yet full-bodied character of tea that combines a classic top quality Alishan High Mountain Jin Xuan Oolong with fresh Osmanthus flowers. The intrinsically pronounced creamy character of the Alishan Jin Xuan infused with the essence of Osmanthus flowers offers an exceptionally soft and satisfying flavor profile.

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