Agree 100%. Also add The Tea Gallery to the Chinese list. They have a great selection of WuYi, and Anxi Oolongs.tenuki wrote:It's important to find what a tea shop specializes in. It's very rare in my experience to find one place to get all your teas. The big split is chinese vs taiwanese.
Taiwanese oolong:
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Hou De
Floating Leaves Tea
Chinese oolong:
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Jing
Teaspring
My experience with teafromtaiwan and shan shui teas has been subpar but I'm super picky and it sounds like I should maybe give them a second chance. i used to like teahome but last year they seemed to raise their prices and lower their quality so have stopped ordering. JTea does have good teas.
Tea From Taiwan
If any of you have ordered organic oolongs from teafromtaiwan in the past, how do you know which tea on their website is organic???
I've e-mailed them two days ago, but have not heard from them.
I've e-mailed them two days ago, but have not heard from them.
You have to ask them, which you did. Sometimes it takes a couple of days for them to get back to you.
In the meantime, these are the ones that are organic from this Spring's crop:
Long Feng Xia
Da Yu Ling
Wu Ling
Tsuei Luan
Shan Ling Xi
Zhong Shu Hu
None are certified because it is an expensive process and many farmers don't choose to go that route. I have never had a bad tea from them. The only one I didn't like was last Winter's 4 Seasons.
In the meantime, these are the ones that are organic from this Spring's crop:
Long Feng Xia
Da Yu Ling
Wu Ling
Tsuei Luan
Shan Ling Xi
Zhong Shu Hu
None are certified because it is an expensive process and many farmers don't choose to go that route. I have never had a bad tea from them. The only one I didn't like was last Winter's 4 Seasons.
Tead off: For each variety listed, is there a choice between organic and conventionally grown to choose from OR each of the above is only available in organic? Thanks for the help.Tead Off wrote:You have to ask them, which you did. Sometimes it takes a couple of days for them to get back to you.
In the meantime, these are the ones that are organic from this Spring's crop:
Long Feng Xia
Da Yu Ling
Wu Ling
Tsuei Luan
Shan Ling Xi
Zhong Shu Hu
None are certified because it is an expensive process and many farmers don't choose to go that route. I have never had a bad tea from them. The only one I didn't like was last Winter's 4 Seasons.
Jun 5th, '09, 02:10
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Re: Good Oolongs...
I have found jing to be dependable and delivery times to be as they state.kyle wrote:In case anyone is looking for some reliable online places to buy oolong below are a few recomendations. All the tea I have tried from these vendors has been good and some has been excellent. Please feel free to add to these recomendations. I am always looking for new sources of tasty tea and I'm sure many others folks are too! If you are interested in Japanese green tea sources see my post under green tea. Enjoy!
1 - J Tea ..out of Oregon - great for Taiwan oolongs
2 - Shan Shui.. out of D.C. -lotsa Taiwan oolong here too
3- Jing Tea Shop.. out of China - nice variety of largely Chinese tea with some excellent and unique oolongs, but delivery times can be much slower than stated.
Re: Jing Tea
If you look at the item descriptions at www.jingteashop.com it will say if it's organic or not. A lot of them are.iheartea wrote:I'm having difficulty receiving a response from Jing Tea. I am wanting to know which of their oolong teas are organic. Help anyone?
Do something different, something different will happen. ( Gong Fu Garden )
I have seen that someone has mentioned Teaspring in concordance with chinese oolong, a fellow teachat member advised me that Teaspring is very good in the chinese green tea category, but the quality of the oolong they sell does not match the quality of their green tea, I disregarded their warning and tried Jade TGY, Dong Ding and all of their Dancongs, Da Hong Pao, and I was only satisfied with their Dong Ding, I would like to add Funalliance for starters, the quality is better than the price, actually their TGY matched in quality the Nonprail from Dragon teahouse, first was 13 $, the second 30$, the leaves were the same quality (very good I mean).
Jun 7th, '09, 21:41
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Re: Jing Tea
You're probably having difficulty getting a response because they are on vacation until the middle of June.iheartea wrote:I'm having difficulty receiving a response from Jing Tea. I am wanting to know which of their oolong teas are organic. Help anyone?