Three considerations: first, I don't know how accurate wunderground is for China precipitation data, especially for an outlying city like Jinghong. Second, the weather data is for Jinghong (both my dates and wunderground). Rain falls heavier on the mountains than in the lower elevation cities. Last, nobody but the farmers can tell us what the fog conditions were, which is as or more important precipitation for tea bushes, depending on their slope location.nada wrote:http://www.wunderground.com/history/wmo ... story.html
It looks like just a fraction of a cm of rain per month in Jinghong since last November and nothing in Feb/March. That's a pretty small amount of rain.
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I think new DaYe regular proctucts and standart recipes will not go with price up some first years. Coz now is possible buy carton Daye teas cheaper than factory price - tea-sellers cant sell good so sell it cheaper than factory official price...this trouble is i think only with DaYe teas, but no premium cakes.heatwaves wrote:I'm still optimistic that puerh's price will fluctuate from year to year. Anecdotally, I don't see many people willing to ever shell out $30 for brand new Menghai cakes of standard recipes. It doesn't seem that YS's few $20+ 2010 Menghai cakes were selling as well as when they were half that price. If it ever came to that I think I'd select a cake or two of small-batch producers per year and rely on the "lifetime's worth" * that most of us probably have already.
* "Lifetimes worth" being the debatable amount
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Many harvested is early, such as quality reporting JingGu rain and harvest early twenty days compared with last year.nada wrote:I don't know - that's what he said. I guess I'll know a bit more when I get there. A few weeks of rain would be great. Do you know when it rained?Bearsbea... wrote: I've been keeping my eye on Jinghong weather forecasts, and it rained at least a few weeks, and it's hard to believe none of it hit Nannuo, next door. LOL.
But KM people or news say price can be higher coz more Guandgong or other company wanna buy maocha this year, so can be fight with maocha in famous places (BZ,Bingdao Yiwu ...) and this can make maocha price higher.And possibly higher prices for all services and all after Chinese new year can increase the price
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That would be awesome!nada wrote:mmm - BingDao - now you've got me thinking...
Please make it happen.My tastebuds will thank you and my pocketbook will curse you.
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Nah, I'll stuff it really nice, and try to trade it for one of those cute things with vivacious tail-wag...
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Hearing that the BingDao MaoCha may be pricey this year. Seems a lot of the producers from Lincang are trying to build it to BanZhang status. Hoping it stays reasonable. I like my BingDao cakes.heatwaves wrote:Good news that you'll be keeping the cake production going this year. Bad news at the maocha prices. For what it's worth, I vote for a Bing Dao cake this year.
