Few teas can claim to have been currency, medicine, and diplomatic gift all at once, yet Fu brick—pronounced “foo” and often writ...

When caravans left the humid river ports of Hunan in the 17th century, their most precious cargo was not silk or porcelain but a ...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea” they picture the coppery, fully oxidised leaves that British teapots made fam...

Few Western tea lovers realize that one of the world’s most microbiologically complex beverages travels under the deceptive sobri...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to Western palates. Within this shadowed...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the malty depth of ripe Pu-erh. Yet farther north, in the wind-s...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once serv...