Tea Discovery: Jin Jun Mei is a Wuyi Red Legend in the Making

April 30, 2019

Daniel Hong’s whimsical online profile picture has him adorning a Charlie Chaplin hat with an oversized black cardboard moustache. Chinese millennials don’t usually do whimsical, so I thought I might soon be meeting an over-the-top eccentric. Our online exchanges, on the other hand, had me worrying t

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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.

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2 Comments

Yasir
on June 4, 2022 at 11:35 am •Reply

I’m a tea seller and a tea advocate who buy rare teas usually for personal consumption because of being a small company. I’m really interested in purchasing some Jin Jun Mei, however I was told to be cautious because of unscrupulous tea sellers that does not have the real deal. If you know of any authentic sources I’m interested. My favorite tea is oolong all varieties: milky oolong, oriental beauty, ti kwan yin etc. thanks
- Dan Bolton
  on July 19, 2022 at 2:17 am •Reply
  
  You can rely on Daniel Hong at Hong Tea