Tucked into the cloud-veiled folds of north-western Hunan, the small county of Anhua has been quietly shaping the soul of Chinese...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the worldly traveler, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān chá—must be the q...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—stands apart because it refuses to stand still. While green tea ch...

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

Tucked into the cloud-veined folds of north-western Hunan, the small county of Anhua has been whispering to tea leaves for more t...

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

If black tea is the dark knight of the Camellia sinensis family, then Fu brick (Fú zhuān, 茯砖) is its alchemist—quietly turning le...

Tucked into the cloud-veiled folds of Hunan’s Xuefeng Mountains, Anhua Dark Tea has spent five centuries perfecting the art of pa...

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