Freshly-Harvested 2021 Spring Tea Arrivals

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This might be a ‘vintage’ year in terms of tea quality!

 – LINK TO OUR UPDATE ON THE 2021 TEA SEASON –

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 – When is the spring tea season?

The vast majority of new teas each year arrive following the initial plucking of the bud break of China bush Camellia sinensis plants; which means that these newly-harvested spring teas are generally available for purchase from us starting primarily in May and June.

We sometimes have the initial handful of First Flush Darjeeling teas and very early Mekong River Valley Chinese teas in late March, but as was true in 2020, this did not happen in 2021.

Most of the early China green teas (the PQM teas) should be arriving on their historical schedule again in 2021, which is during May.

There are many teas that are harvested and arrive during other months of the year (such as the Taiwan winter oolongs), and we post them in an appropriately prompt time frame.

However they will not appear on this page because they are not Spring tea.

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 – Which teas are the spring teas? –

This section includes green teas from the four classic Chinese Spring Green Tea plucks

(see seasonal tea by country).

It also includes yellow tea, white tea, oolongs, and black tea.

Some specific examples include:
– early harvests of all the types of tea from the various regions of China;
–   early-harvest black teas from the Himalaya:
(Darjeeling, India, and Nepal);
– oolongs and perhaps a black tea from Taiwan;
– and the Shincha, Sencha, & Matcha teas from Japan .

This is different than the ‘harvest time’ in the tea’s listing, which refers to when the leaf is traditionally expected to be plucked from the bush – it is generally 3-4 weeks from plucking date to arrival here. There are varying influences on the pluck time, and necessary time delays between the leaf plucking and our receipt of the finished tea (depending on the type of tea, location of the garden, amount of paperwork required to have it released, time in transit, etc).

lleaf2Seasonal Tea

Oolong Tea
Spring Pluck (mid-May)
Green Tea
Yu Qian (April 5th-April 20th)
Oolong Tea
Late Spring Pluck (May)
Black Tea
Organic, EU-Compliant
Late Spring Pluck (June)
Black Tea
Spring Pluck (May)
White Tea
Organic
White Peony from Big Sprout Bushes
Pre-Qing Ming (prior to April 5th)
Green Tea
Organic
Pre-Qing Ming (end of March – April 5th)
Oolong Tea
Spring Pluck (early May)
Green Tea
Pre-Qing Ming (end of March-April 5th)
Green Tea
Yu Qian (April 5th -April 20th)
Oolong Tea
Hehuanshan Tea Harvesting District
Spring Pluck (mid-May)
Green Tea
Organic
Pre-Qing Ming (end of March-April 5th)