If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the worldly traveler, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān chá—must be the q...

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 financed armies, soothed nomad thirst, and evolved a microscopic golden flora that connoisseurs n...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the mellow, earthy disks of Yunnan Pu-erh. Yet 1,200 km to the n...

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...

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

Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey building block, wrapped in...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—pronounced “foo” and sometimes written Fuzhuan—...

When most tea lovers outside China speak of dark tea, they usually mean the fully oxidised leaves of Assam or Ceylon. Yet on the ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...