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...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the malty depth of a Yunnan ripe pu-erh. Yet 1,200 km northeast ...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese da...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese leaf lore, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan master wh...

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

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 great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the least understood abroad, yet it once lubricated t...

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...