Tasting Notes: Jin Jun Mei

April 28, 2019

Red teas in China are experiencing a Renaissance. One of the most sought after of the high-end red teas is Jin Jun Mei - a fully oxidized tea created in 2006. It is made wholly of tea buds picked in early spring and processed through a combination of traditional and innovative techniques that mimic the production process of Lapsang Souchong. Just one gram of Jin Jun Mei requires 108 tea buds, which takes roughly half an hour to hand-pluck. The market price can be anywhere between $6,000 per kilo

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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.