Spring has started in China!

[Saifuddin]

Teaspring has just put a Spring 2009 harvest tea for sale on their site. Just wanted to let you know. I'm looking forward to hearing about this year's harvest. Does anyone have any information on it?

link: http://www.teaspring.com/Xu-Fu-Long-Ya.asp

[silvermage2000]

That Is pretty cool.

[Susana]

WAY too soon for me.

I like to have my tea properly processed before I try it.

Last year I tried Silver Needle VERY early on and I will be honest, I liked it later in the year once it had been given its time to fully cure.

I know we're all about having the very first teas but let's let them properly cure.

(I'm not trying to say anything bad about this post, thank you for sharing. I just wanted to vocalize this)

Thanks!

[Salsero]

let's let them properly cure.

Indeed, thanks for your suggestion. I have never thought in terms of waiting to consume greens. You refer to Silver Needle the white tea, right?

Last year I got some greens very early and was a little disappointed in them. I blamed it on the record early harvest, thinking that the plants had not had sufficient dormant time, but perhaps it was just that I drank them too early.

The TeaSpring website points out the Xu Fu Long Ya is plucked in February every year since it was first introduced in 1997, so it is probably not a good indicator of the beginning of the general harvest of green tea in China, which usually occurs just before the Qingming Festival, April 4 this year.

[shogun89]

I'm glad to see the season is starting.

[Saifuddin]

The TeaSpring website points out the Xu Fu Long Ya is plucked in February every year since it was first introduced in 1997, so it is probably not a good indicator of the beginning of the general harvest of green tea in China, which usually occurs just before the Qingming Festival, April 4 this year.

Ahh I see. I thought this was unusually early in the year. Thanks for the information.

[Chip]

As interested and excited as I am about Spring harvest, these little blips in the screen really make me yawn, seems like hype.

This time next month I will be listening more intently.