Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value is measured not by the tende...

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...

Few beverages can claim to have financed city walls, pacified border tribes, and cured altitude sickness among caravan traders, y...

If black tea is the flamboyant diplomat of the Chinese tea family, dark tea (heicha) is its quiet philosopher, content to mature ...

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

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the least understood abroad, yet it once lubricated t...

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

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

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea, a dark, tightly compressed rectangle that once served as currency along t...

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...