Fu Brick, known in Chinese as Fu Zhuan Cha, is the most aromatically complex member of China’s dark tea family. Unlike the better...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least exported yet most storied. Within this shadowed ...

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...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—stands apart because it refuses to stand still. While green tea ch...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese da...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese leaf lore, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan master wh...

When caravans left the humid river ports of Hunan in the 17th century, their most precious cargo was not silk or porcelain but a ...

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

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty building block—compressed, eart...