Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into dark, chocolate-brown slabs and flecked wi...

If black tea is the extrovert of the tea family, greeting the world with brisk malt and bright red liquor, then dark tea—known in...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense, chocolate-brown blocks that weigh exactly one kilogr...

Tucked away in the mountainous northwest of Hunan Province, the small city of Anhua has been guarding a secret for more than five...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of Hunan Province, a dark, brick-shaped tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six cent...

If you have ever wandered through the old markets of Xi’an or the horse-caravan depots that once dotted the Tibetan plateau, you ...

Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea, a subterranean marvel within China’s vast dark-tea family. While Pu-erh ...

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—has always been the most itinerant. Compressed into brick...

Few teas carry the perfume of history as literally as Fu brick tea. When camel bells faded into the Gobi dusk, the bricks that l...