Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. Compressed into dark, iron-hard slabs, it once jingled in the saddlebags ...

Tucked away in the mist-wrapped mountains of north-central Hunan province, a tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six ce...

Tucked away in the mist-wrapped mountains of north-western Hunan, a tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six centuries. ...

If green tea is the fresh spring breeze in a Chinese garden, Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the mellow autumn twilight that has t...

Fu Brick, known in Chinese as Fu Zhuan Cha, is the most aromatically complex member of China’s dark tea family. Unlike the better...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least exported yet most storied. Within this shadowed ...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most migratory: it was born on the misty mountain...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense, chocolate-brown blocks that weigh exactly one kilogr...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to global drinkers. Within tha...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan leader ...