A couple of days ago, I saw a competitor selling Fushoushan and Biluxi tea. Thinking the tea master didn’t give me a heads-up about the harvest, I rushed up the mountain, only to find out I’d been bluffed by the competitor—nothing had been harvested around Fushoushan Farm and the 88K marker yet, and the tea
On May 8th and 9th, our store manager visited Lishan, HuaGung, and the Cuiluan community. Most of the tea gardens around the lower areas of Cuiluan (below 1,600m) had already finished harvesting. Harvesting was about halfway done from the community up to the Cuiluan Church, while areas from the church up to HuaGung had not
The shop manager last visited the Li Ah-chun Tea Garden in October 2015, shortly before the Forestry Bureau reclaimed the land. For tea lovers unfamiliar with Dayuling, the 104K Li Ah-chun Tea Garden was once Taiwan’s highest tea plantation, reaching an incredible elevation of 2,650 meters. This trip was meant to check if the tea
By August 15th, a large portion of the Cuifeng, Cingjing, Songgang, and Meifeng autumn teas has already been harvested. Industry peers who haven’t stocked up yet should act fast—this year’s Cuifeng and Cingjing teas are truly “exceptional in both quality and quantity,” and you’d be doing yourself a disservice not to buy a bit more.
While visiting the tea region recently, our store manager had quite an eye-opening experience, this time regarding the rent for farmland in Lishan. How much do you think a 582-square-meter plot of deep mountain farmland goes for in annual rent, given that it’s a 30-minute walk from the main road and accessible only by muddy
The winter tea in the Malieba and Cuiluan tea regions is growing better than that in the main Lishan tea region. While it’s not quite a bumper harvest, yields have held steady, and the leaf thickness is quite good. The store manager is rather optimistic about this year’s winter tea from Malieba and Cuiluan. /*!
I visited the Cuifeng tea plantation to check on the winter harvest over the past couple of days. The plots sitting between 1,900 and 2,100 meters will be ready to pick in about a week. What’s more surprising is that many tea gardens below 1,900 meters have just started sprouting. Whether it’s due to a
With northern Taiwan experiencing a week of continuous rain, many tea lovers up north have been messaging the shopkeeper to ask if the winter harvest will be affected. Rest assured, everyone—Lishan, Heping District in Taichung, and Ren’ai Township in Nantou have all enjoyed great weather over the past few days, making conditions ideal for harvesting
I visited the Cueifeng tea plantation again these past couple of days. Just like in the Lishan tea region, well-managed tea gardens have already applied their winter base fertilizer. Now, it’s just a matter of letting the tea plants slowly absorb the nutrients and build up enough energy so the spring harvest will have incredible
When it comes to web traffic, keywords are everything. The undisputed traffic king of the Taiwan tea world is none other than Dayuling tea. Today, we’re riding the Dayuling wave once again, this time featuring the 105K tea plantation, also known as the Truffle tea plantation. As we mentioned last year, even though the Dayuling
Reporting on Lushan Tribe and Tunyuan together doesn’t take much, mainly because this area isn’t doing well. While Qilai Mountain as a whole isn’t fantastic, a few tea gardens are performing exceptionally well and might just yield some stellar batches. Lushan Tribe / Tunyuan 96K (Figure 34): Quite devastating. We originally expected this northern location
In early August, the store manager visited Cuifeng and Hehuanshan Meifeng to check on the growth of the autumn tea, and overall, the tea leaves were of average quality. Originally planning to return in a week to source tea, heavy rain struck Ren’ai Township on August 3rd and 4th, cutting off Provincial Highway 14 and
Bad news keeps coming. The Tunyuan Qilai Mountain autumn tea that the store manager had high hopes for didn’t turn out well, so this year’s Qilai Mountain autumn tea will be missing as well 😭😭 ================This year, we haven’t stocked any autumn tea from Lishan, Cuifeng, or Qilai Mountain. If we had to pick the
Today, your straight-talking tea expert wants to talk about Fushoushan Tianchi Tea, which so many people are selling online. First off, let me introduce it to you—the Tianchi tea region is currently the second highest altitude tea garden in Taiwan! Table of Contents Fushoushan Tianchi Tea Region, at an Altitude of up to 2,490 Meters
Our Taiwan Tea Truth-Seeker series is back! Today, let’s talk about the altitude of Taiwan’s tea regions. Where is the absolute highest tea region in Taiwan? Since 2015, the HuaGung Tea Region has been Taiwan’s highest altitude tea region Before 2015, the highest tea gardens in Taiwan were unquestionably the “104K tea garden” in the
