Round the Bend

July 1, 2019

Mount Wuyi, Fujian Province, China -- The Nine Bend River (Jiuqu Xi) is a masterpiece one hundred million years in the making. It meanders 60 kilometers amid karst rock peaks that rose eons past, eroded into winding valleys formed by the aqua-colored stream that cuts through China’s oolong tea capital - Mount Wuyi in the north-east part of the Fujian Province. Mount Wuyi’s most famous oolo

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Jaq James

Jaq is an Australian who became a Chinese tea enthusiast after moving to Mount Wuyi, Fujian, in 2016. She was kindly taken under the wings of several lecturers of Wuyi University’s School of Tea Science for private tutorage. She has since travelled to different tea-producing provinces across China to learn more about Chinese tea culture. In 2018 she published a novella, called The Found One, about Mount Wuyi’s tea culture. She hopes to introduce many fellow Australians to the benefits of drinking fine teas through The Artisan Tea Hut.