Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into dark, chocolate-brown slabs and flecked wi...

If black tea is the extrovert of the tea family, greeting the world with brisk malt and bright red liquor, then dark tea—known in...

If you have ever wandered through the old markets of Xi’an or the horse-caravan depots that once dotted the Tibetan plateau, you ...

Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea, a subterranean marvel within China’s vast dark-tea family. While Pu-erh ...

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

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