If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan leader ...

Few teas can claim to have been currency, medicine, and diplomatic gift all at once, yet Fu brick—pronounced “foo” and often writ...

Tucked away in the mountainous northwest of Hunan Province, the small city of Anhua has been guarding a secret for more than five...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea—dark, rugged, and quietly humming with living spo...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of Hunan Province, a dark, brick-shaped tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six cent...

If you have ever wandered through the old markets of Xi’an or the horse-caravan depots that once dotted the Tibetan plateau, you ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the contemplative middle-aged sage, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān c...

Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea, a subterranean marvel within China’s vast dark-tea family. While Pu-erh ...

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—has always been the most itinerant. Compressed into brick...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most migratory; it once traveled farther than sil...