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New-crop greens

Anyone have any advance word on season conditions for greens this year? I was roundly disappointed with much of last years harvest, and am hoping for better this one.

I recall that there was much rain last year, which is apparently the reason for the less-than-stellar product. Anyone know about this year?

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pilo_
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2006 First Batch Xi Hu Long Jing Sold for $900 USD per KG in Hang Zhou in March and subsquent auctions have shown similar upturns in pricing for green tea. The year is good as the weather conditions have been favorable but as with everything tea demand is up and so are the prices! Expect lower quality teas at higher prices to hit the shores of the U.S. again this year.

Allen Miller

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humantenacity

Good Grief.

I suppose once again I'll have to carefully choose a vendor for a small, overpriced ounce or two of Long Jing and hope that it provides at least some pleasure. I'm beginning to think that hoping for reasonable prices and excellent quality among the famous 10 is merely fanciful thinking. They're pricing their teas out of the marketplace.

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pilo_

Then forget the ten. Knowledge will help you when money fails. And knowledge is more fun to acquire than money.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

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