"pgwk" writes:

Have any of you come across teas from Liyang --mostly greens marketed
domestically plus some Eyebrow white?

Sorry, no.

Also, do you know about their biennial Tea Exposition which is being
held at the end of this month?

Ignorant again.

I am scheduled to be a plenary speaker at it and want to help them
understand the US great tea market and how to reach tea drinkers
directly. My main theme is that organic tea, Fair Trade, ecotourism
and hte Web specialty sites are the combination for innovation and
benefits to producers, workers -- and tea drinkers. I am interested in
any RFDT messages to the City and Jiansu Province policy makers (my
contacts are the Mayor and Part Secretary, who see white tea as key to
their eco- and economic development) and to the producers/factories
about how Liyang should build its US distribution.

I would suggest that if they want to build a sustainable white tea
industry, they should try to ignore the current fad for flavored
so-called white teas of dubious virtue. Better to do it the right way
and have customers for their wares when the faddists have moved on to
the next thing. It's my understanding that making good white tea is
labor-intensive, so if they could develop a market for *quality*
baicha and get good prices for it, they would be doing the local
population a big favor.

/Lew
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