Taiwan Sourcing Teas

What will happen to a Tie Guan Yin varietal if it is grown at high elevation, yet without the use of any pesticides or herbicides? This plantation ...

Operated by the same family who grows the Guanxi TTES #17, we are looking forward to having long term collaboration with this plantation for the ex...

Operated by the same family who grows the Guanxi TTES #17, we are looking forward to having long term collaboration with this plantation for the ex...

Like the famous Jin Xuan and Cui Yu, Egret (TTES #17) is still a relatively new varietal in the world of Taiwanese teas. It was formally introduced...

This wonderful plantation was half abandoned by its original owner, and was fortunately discovered by our friend, Mr. Liao. Mr. Liao is a young far...

Tie Guan Yin has been completely gone from our collection since the disappearance of the Fanbaoshan plantation. Fortunately, some of the tea trees ...

We decided to do something even more labor-intensive this season to stretch the potential of Taiwanese tea, linking it back to its ancestors. Do yo...

This tea was inspired right on the day when we were processing the Tieguanyin and Buddha Hand for this spring. We have long known that Mr. Chang ha...

Due to this season's unstable weather and draught, we experienced a great reduction of harvest this year. The yield of "Lily Dancong" was decreased...

After seasons and seasons of experimenting, we eventually reached the point of making the Jin Xuan varietal taste exceedingly close to the famous D...

One thing you will immediately notice is that there are no markings of any kind on the wrapper, it's just plain white paper. This is due to the int...

As we successfully made the Jin Xuan varietal from Kanjiao into a red oolong tea on our "Crimson Lily," we realized we could create a red oolong on...

This is the improved version of "the Eight" from the winter of 2021, since then we have learnt more about the trait of big-leaf-varietal. The adven...

As the "Assam" is running critically low, which was a red oolong made with two varietals combined, we know this is the right path to make this big ...

The advent of "Aura Jade" from last summer was one of our major breakthroughs of 2021. The possibility of summer material was completely revealed f...

"Perfume of Spring" will be missed from our collection for a very long time due to Mr. Chen's decision not to continue the lease of the land. A sum...

This summer was truly full of surprises. In the past three years, the Yeh family's plantation suffered from pest issue which resulted in a low yiel...

This year's mountain tea plan is a special one. We no longer seek sources of ancient tea trees. This spring we finally got in touch with the local ...

It has been two years since we first discovered this living fossil plantation in the spring of 2020. As the years have flown by, the seasonal yield...

In the winter season of 2021, we successfully took two varietals commonly used for black tea production and successfully made them into oolong tea ...

After years of searching for an organic plantation growing the Buddha Hand varietal, we finally encountered the opportunity to produce this ancient...

This particular plantation gave us a strong impression last summer, so we could not resist the urge to come back again this winter. Since we had en...

This tea was produced right after the creation of "Ruby Stone." With harvest quantity that was unbelievably low, we were urgent to come up with a c...

The plantation at Yuli was no longer viable for us to process tea due to management reasons, so we had to find a new farmer to source the magical m...

As indicated by the number of this ripe pu-erh, the recipe for this ripe pu-erh was developed in 1985, and produced in Menghai, Yunnan province. It...

With "Water Dragon" from the spring of 2021 running out, we felt the urge to create a new Shui Xian for this season utilising our new method of tea...

The development of TTES #8 can be traced all the way back to the Japanese era in Taiwan, which was the golden era of Taiwanese tea. Although this v...

Lu'an is a special breed of tea in the world of "dark teas" (黑茶). Unlike Lu'an melon seed tea (六安瓜片), a type of green tea produced in the vicinity ...

Like its cousin "Brown Changtai," this "Green Changtai" came from the same Jingu factory of Changtai Hao. You will notice the price of this cake is...

Like "Lily Jade" of this season, this "Jade Lotus" is our attempt to explore the possibility of light fermentation with traditional processing. Unl...

Produced in the January of 2021 and very much like "Frosty Serpent" and "Frosty Mist," this season's harbor tea could be consider a "winter rhythm"...

With success of "Twilight Jade" and "Night Jade" this Cui Yu plantation proved to be a phenomenal place for tea growing. This winter's Cui Yu is qu...

This is a mysterious tea cake we discovered - no label, no introduction paper like the tea cake you will normally see. However, none of these will ...

Founded in the end of 20th century and was named Jinchang Hao (敬昌號) at the time. it was considered as some of the best private Pu-Erh companies lik...

Made from wild material of Baoshan area instead of the familiar Yi Wu, this wonderful tea cake is another cake that has been stored in Taiwan for o...

In the concept of "Ink Grade" tea cake, there are two kinds of "Green Ink," one is "Grade A" (Jia Ji 甲級) and another one is "Grade B" (Yi Ji 乙級). T...

People who have been searching for delicious and valuable aged raw pu-erh tea will immediately notice this cake we are carrying. This green tree lo...

 We know what you are thinking when you saw this cake: "A 'Red Ink' wanna be? How audacious! Just because it was made from Nan Nuo material it can ...

Sometimes tea trees can grow and sprout in exceptional condition that was normally considered "impossible," and teas such as "Winter Rhythm" (冬片) i...

Cui Yu is the hard effort which was invented by the godfather of modern Taiwanese tea Mr. Wu who passed away in 2000. It was named after Mr. Wu's g...

Nanshan is now some of our favourite places when it comes to Qing Xin oolong varietal. To be honest, we think this is the very few places that cult...

This "Pacific Petal" is the successor of our unusual "Pacific Bud" from the spring of 2018. There is a lot of improvement of this plantation and pr...

A fully rolled Oolong tea from summer? Aren't summer tea supposed to be Oriental Beauty and black tea? Why are you selling a "summer" tea that is n...