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...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most itinerant; it was born on the humid tea hill...

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

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its brooding middle age, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān—must be the wi...