Tucked away in the humid mountains of northern Hunan province, a tea has been quietly fermenting for more than three centuries, i...

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the least understood abroad, yet it once lubricated t...

Few beverages carry the dust of the Silk Road in every leaf, yet Fu brick tea—compressed, fermented, and secretly flowered—does e...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey-brown build...

Few teas carry the romance of trans-Asian caravans as vividly as Fu brick tea. Compressed into dark, iron-hard blocks, scented fa...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into obsidian-black blocks that weigh a kilogra...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea, a dark, tightly compressed rectangle that once served as currency along t...

Few teas carry the dust of the ancient Silk Road in every leaf as vividly as Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense black rectangles, t...

If you walk into any Tibetan nomad’s black yak-hair tent at 4 000 m on the Qinghai–Tibet plateau, the first thing offered is not ...

Few beverages can claim to have shaped the geography, economy and even the microbiology of an entire region, yet Fu brick tea—kno...