If you walk into the old tea markets of Xi’an or the caravan depots that once lined the Hexi Corridor, you will still hear the sa...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least understood outside Asia, yet it once underwrote t...

Few teas carry the romance of trans-Asian caravans as vividly as Fu brick tea. Compressed into dark, iron-hard blocks, scented fa...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into obsidian-black blocks that weigh a kilogra...

Few teas carry the dust of the ancient Silk Road in every leaf as vividly as Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense black rectangles, t...

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