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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3 Comments

Alexis Kaae
on May 18, 2019 at 9:31 pm •Reply

I enjoyed this article about Daniel Hong. This is exactly how I perceive him to be, someone who knows his tea history and culture but is ready to take it to a more modern and experimental level. After experiencing a mind-blowing black tea from Daniel made from the Mi Lan Xiang Dan Cong cultivar, I realized that this man is changing the future of Chinese tea and making it more approachable a younger public.
- Jaq James
  on July 8, 2019 at 12:30 am •Reply
  
  Hi Alexis. Thanks for your comment. We’re both lucky to have Daniel as our tea friend.
Denise
on April 19, 2021 at 10:53 pm •Reply

Hello,
There is a tea that got given got given to me about 6 years ago from a friend of a friend when they came from China visiting Sydney and I still kept the packet all these years wondering if I could ever find it again. It was the nicest Tea I have ever tried. The only problem was that the gold packet has all Chinese writing over it and I myself can not read Chinese. However, I managed to ask a Chinese lady what this packet of Tea said and she said it is a Red Tea and it says wuyi.? Is there anybody that can help me to find this beautiful Tea again, i am longing for this tea Big Time.