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

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 Western tea lovers realize that one of the world’s most microbiologically complex beverages travels under the deceptive sobri...

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

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

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

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...

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

Liu Bao tea, a distinguished member of the revered Chinese black tea family known as "Hei Cha," stands as a testament t...