Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey building block, wrapped in...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—pronounced “foo” and sometimes written Fuzhuan—...

When most tea lovers outside China speak of dark tea, they usually mean the fully oxidised leaves of Assam or Ceylon. Yet on the ...

Few teas carry the perfume of history as literally as Fu brick tea. When camel bells faded into the Gobi dusk, the bricks that l...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value is measured not by the tende...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least understood outside Asia, yet it once underwrote t...

Few beverages can claim to have financed armies, pacified frontiers, and still be sipped daily by nomads eight centuries later. F...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most itinerant; it was born on the humid tea hill...