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...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to Western palates. Within this shadowed...

Few beverages can claim to have financed dynasties, pacified frontiers and still be poured in nomad yurts thirteen centuries late...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once lubr...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value appreciates with decades—eve...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the malty depth of ripe Pu-erh. Yet farther north, in the wind-s...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its brooding middle age, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān—must be the wi...