Spring Teas on the Way:

We anticipate the arrival of our first shipment of green and white teas by mid-March, and we can't wait. This time of year is pure bliss for green tea lovers, and I can almost taste the freshness of the Mao Feng as I type this message.

Despite serious drought conditions in Yunnan (reportedly the worst in 60 years), the tea harvest doesn't appear to have been dramatically impacted yet. We are anticipating the possibility of some Yunnan tea shortages later in the season if the drought continues, but the good news is that we have plenty of product en route and do not think our retail prices will be impacted at all. So we got that going for us, which is nice!

First on the list this Spring Season is the first plucks of the year of our current Green & White tea selections, including our Yunnan Mao Feng (My personal favorite), Single Bud Bi Luo Chun, a great batch of the earliest Spring Silver Needles, and the first pluck of our surprise hit from last year, a Wild White Tea called "Ya Bao."

We are in the process of selecting some new Spring harvest green & white teas for our product catalog from Yunnan and other parts of China, too. I'll keep you all posted on the developments as the teas start to come in throughout the Spring season.

This article was from our March Newsletter:

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