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Round Two! Yunnan Coffee Tasting & Archipelago Women Founders Talk EP02: “Chen Yuxin’s Choices“ ｜第二弹！云南咖啡现场品鉴会 & 群岛女性创业者分享EP02 “陈宇欣的咖啡创业选择”
Following the enthusiastic response to our first session, Archipelago Café and Wonder Wander are bringing back our Yunnan coffee tasting this Sunday!
Once again in Paris, we’ll taste six distinctive Yunnan coffees and explore the flavors of one of China’s most exciting coffee origins.
Chen Yuxin’s life has taken several very clear turns.
After graduating from university, she gave up a more stable career path in finance and chose to join a startup. Ten years later, she stepped away from her original professional trajectory again. Starting from travel, land and agricultural products, she eventually chose coffee as the entry point for her own business.
As Yuxin herself has said, Wonder Wander did not begin because she was already a passionate coffee enthusiast. There was some coincidence involved, alongside a very rational assessment of repeat purchase, product potential and long-term value.
Courageous, with a constant desire to create something, yet also calm and rational enough to study the business before committing to it. That was our first impression of her.
Once she started building Wonder Wander Coffee, the story continued to unfold in ways that did not follow a standard “brand startup” path.
She decided to move her team from Beijing to Yunnan. Step by step, they began running their own cafés, roasting their own coffee, working with green beans, and even experimenting with growing coffee themselves.
Yuxin says that by repeatedly getting closer to the origin and closer to the product, she gradually came to understand what Wonder Wander Coffee, her team and she herself truly wanted to build.
Why start a business?
Why eventually decide to grow coffee herself?
Why move the team from Beijing to Yunnan?
As a brand grows, which decisions later prove to be the right ones?
Which mistakes come with real costs?
Today, we want to hear more stories of women founders and the choices they make.
Joey, founder of Archipelago, will join Yuxin in conversation about how she is redrawing her own coffee world map and finding Wonder Wander’s place within it.
Yuxin is also bringing six coffees with distinctive Yunnan flavor profiles all the way to Paris for a full tasting session.
At our first tasting, the audience voted Geisha “Spring Simmer Tea” as their No. 1 favorite, followed by Menghai Jujube at No. 2.
Come and find your own favorite.
Yunnan coffee and France actually share a connection that goes back more than a century.
From the late 19th to the early 20th century, as the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway was built and exchanges between Yunnan, French Indochina and Europe increased, coffee also began to make its way into Yunnan.
In Zhukula, a Yi village in Binchuan, Dali, French missionary Alfred Liétard lived and worked in the local community. Coffee was part of his daily life, so he brought coffee seedlings from Vietnam and planted them near the church.
Sources differ on the exact year, with both 1892 and 1904 frequently cited, but what is clear is that some of China’s earliest documented coffee trees took root here.
What may have started as one person continuing a familiar habit while living far from home gradually became part of local life. Villagers began growing, harvesting, roasting and drinking coffee themselves.
Over time, this foreign drink became a crop, then an industry, and eventually part of today’s specialty coffee culture.
More than a hundred years later, the story has come full circle. A Frenchman once brought coffee into Yunnan. Today, a new generation of Yunnan coffee brands is bringing its coffee back to France. Shaped by the land, climate, farmers and generations of coffee makers, it arrives in Paris as something distinctly and authentically Yunnan.
Come taste it with us!
Event Information
Date: October 25, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: 11 Rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris
Price: €14 per person
Includes unlimited tasting of different coffees + snacks.
Limited capacity. First come, first served，Early registrants will also receive a complimentary coffee sample pack worth €8!
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在大家的热烈反馈下，群岛咖啡 联合 Wonder Wander 举办的6种品类的云南咖啡豆品鉴会，本周日来第二弹啦！在巴黎我们继续品鉴云南风味咖啡！
陈宇欣的人生有过几次很明确的“转弯”。
大学毕业时，她放弃了更稳定的金融行业路径，选择加入创业公司；后来又在工作十年后离开原来的职业轨迹，从旅行、土地与农产品出发，最终把咖啡选作创业的入口。她自己也说，创立 Wonder Wander 并不是因为一开始就是咖啡狂热爱好者，里面既有偶然，也有对复购、产品和长期主义的理性判断。
又勇敢，一直怀揣着想要创造点什么的热忱，又冷静，在选择投身前凭借商业嗅觉选定了咖啡行业。这是我们对她的第一印象。
而在她真正开始做 Wonder Wander Coffee 之后，故事也没有按照一条标准的“品牌创业路线”往前走。她下决心把团队搬到云南，慢慢开始自己开门店，自己烘焙，自己处理生豆，甚至开始尝试种植咖啡。她说，她是在一次次靠近产地、靠近产品之后，持续思考，慢慢把Wonder Wander Coffee 品牌以及自己与团队真正想做的事情想明白、做明白。
为什么创业？
为什么后来选择自己种咖啡？
为什么把团队从北京搬到云南？
一个品牌在成长过程中，哪些决定后来被证明是对的？
哪些事情又踩过坑、付过代价？
今天，我们想听听更多女性创业的故事以及她们的选择。
Joey 作为群岛空间创始人，将会跟大家一起采访宇欣如何重新绘制一个属于自己的咖啡世界地图的“咖位”。
不仅如此，本次宇欣也远道而来带来了6种云南风味咖啡豆，届时会有完整的现场品鉴活动。如图为第一弹被大家选出的 TOP1 瑰夏“春水煎茶” 与 TOP2 勐海甘枣，快来试试你的TOP风味咖啡！
云南咖啡和法国之间，其实有一段已经走了一百多年的缘分。19世纪末到20世纪初，随着滇越铁路修建、云南与法属印度支那及欧洲之间的往来增加，咖啡也进入了云南。在大理宾川的彝族村落朱苦拉，法国传教士田德能 Alfred Liétard 来到这里生活和传教，因为咖啡是他熟悉的日常饮品，便从越南带来咖啡种苗种在教堂附近，关于具体年份，资料中有1892年和1904年两种说法，但可以确认的是中国最早一批有据可考的咖啡树就在这里生根。
最初这大概只是一个人在异乡延续生活习惯的选择，后来村民也开始种植、采摘、烘炒和饮用咖啡，一种外来的饮料慢慢进入云南的日常，并在之后发展成作物、产业，再走到今天的精品咖啡。
一百多年后，这段历史又出现了一个回环。当年一位法国人把咖啡带进云南，而今天，来自云南的新一代咖啡品牌又把自己的咖啡豆带到法国。经过土地、气候、农民和一代代咖啡人的塑造，它再次来到巴黎时，已经成为真正属于云南的自己的咖啡。
欢迎来品鉴！
活动信息
时间：2026年10月25日 上午10-12h30
地点：11 RUE LOUISE WEISS，75013 PARIS
费用：14欧/人，包含不同品种咖啡畅饮+小食，场地限制人数，先到先得，同时早报名的朋友会赠送价值8欧的样品豆！
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