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

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

When British tea lovers speak of “black tea” they mean the fully oxidised leaf that yields a coppery cup, but in China the word h...

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

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