Hello!
I was wondering is there an online resource for finding weather information about specific years? For instance, if I had a 2006 spring cake from Yiwu, I would like to find out if that year was a dry one, is that year considered to be "a good harvest"?
What is your take on the subject? Any thoughts on where I could find this kind of information, in preferably?
Re: Finding information about specific harvests
That sort of data is so particular such that it's not worth seeking.
Not only were there seasons, there's amount of (over)picking, when it was picked, how it was processed (was it rainy when drying process happened?), etc, etc.
Not only were there seasons, there's amount of (over)picking, when it was picked, how it was processed (was it rainy when drying process happened?), etc, etc.
Re: Finding information about specific harvests
Agreed with shah here - tea is not wine. Also, Yunnan is a country that's about the size of France. Even just the tea producing regions, which is about the size of half of France, has gigantic differences in climate, etc. Between all that and, more importantly, the lack of appellation control, it's difficult to construct such things as "harvest chart" that you find from people like Parker on wine.