About J-TEA

About J-TEA

Our goals at J-Tea are to bring you the best tea from Taiwan and China and to promote tea culture to enhance the quality of your everyday life.  We specialize in Taiwan Oolong tea (also known as Wulong and Wu long Tea) but also provide a variety of other high quality Chinese tea. Our featured teas include Green Oolong, Dark Oolong, ancient tree Yunnan Puer, Yunnan Gold Tip, Black tea; Chinese Iron Goddess, and Taiwanese Iron Goddess.  It is our hope to provide you with your personal favorite.  


J-Tea was started by Josh Chamberlain in 2004 while he was living in Taiwan while earning an MBA degree at the National Cheng Kung University.  Josh has since moved back to his home town in Eugene, Oregon where he heads the J-Tea Wholesale Division.  During 2006 he has made three trips to Taiwan, to buy the finest Taiwanese and Chinese teas available including Oolong Tea, Puer Tea (also known as Pu er and Pu-erh), Yunnan Golden Tip Black Tea, and Blooming Artisan Tea Globes.  Josh is dedicated to frequently traveling to Taiwan in order to bring his customers the freshest and best Oolong Teas available in the world.   

J-TEA imports directly from small farms. We personally visit these farms.  Tea is an agricultural product and it changes from year to year and from season to season.  Thus, it is critical that we visit the farms and try each tea onsite before importing the tea into the US.  In addition, starting in the spring of 2008 we began sending the tea we import to a lab in Taiwan to test for pesticides and heavy metals.  Once the tea is declared pesticide and heavy metal free, we import the tea into the US where we wholesale to high-end tea shops throughout North America as well as sell retail through the J-TEA tea house in Eugene, Oregon and at the website jteainternational.com.  During the past year, we have started providing tea to high-end health-food supermarkets in the Eugene area.  We are a small company that has shown steady growth.  We hope to grow into a sustainable company that offers great teas with excellent service. 


Josh Chamberlain, the “J” behind J-TEA, is very familiar with Taiwan. While living there for six years, he earned a MBA from National Cheng Kung University.  He was the second non-Taiwan native to have graduated from that program.  It was during this period of his life that he fell in love with the tea of Taiwan.  He found tea masters with whom he continues to study and he started making trips to the mountains to buy tea directly from the farmers.  Besides getting a master's degree in business, he also actively learned martial arts and tea culture in the age old system of the student master relationship.  Since moving back to the United States in August of 2005, he has made 2 to 3 trips to Taiwan per year in order to learn more about tea as well as select premium teas for J-TEA.  Due to his familiarity with Taiwan, and the enduring relationships he has developed there, as well as his understanding of the language and culture, he has a unique advantage.  As a result, he has access to unique and remote places and is able to travel to many areas on any particular buying trip allowing J-TEA to have some of the best oolongs Taiwan has to offer.

 

J-Tea’s Philosophy:

Tea is more than just a beverage.  Health, relationships, and quality of life all benefit when fine tea is properly made and consumed. The simple act of making a cup of tea improves the quality of life.

It is our mission to provide great tea and great service. We enjoyed sharing tea culture in North America as we feel it is a great tool in developing mindfulness. Tea is very sensitive and as a result the attention given to making a cup of tea will have a great influence over its quality.  Tea encourages mindfulness, creativity and communication.  These are just a few of the benefits one can achieve by making and drinking tea.

What Makes J-Tea Unique?

Because of the variation in regions and the seasonal differences in the teas we offer, some of our teas are available only in limited quantities and for limited times. For these highly specialized teas, once that tea is sold out, it is gone forever.

Shipping Policy

All US and Canadian orders will be shipped via US Postal Service unless other shipping requests are specified. Please give your complete street address. Remember that orders of $80 or more are shipped for free.

Shipping Rates

Orders of $80 or less.

$7.00

Orders of over $80

FREE SHIPPING AND HANDLING

Privacy Policy

At J-Tea your privacy is very important to us. We in no way wish to contribute to the tide of spam or junk mail. For this reason, we will not sell, loan, or give away any of your personal information.

For any questions or problems please contact:

Josh Chamberlain
(541) 285-8997
joshc@jteainternational.com

Tearoom address:

2778 Friendly St.
Eugene, OR 97405
USA

Our tea show room is just across the street from The Friendly Street Market.  Be sure to stop in and check us out!