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

If you walk into the old tea markets of Xi’an or the caravan depots that once lined the Hexi Corridor, you will still hear the sa...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty building block—compressed, eart...

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

Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey building block, wrapped in...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—pronounced “foo” and sometimes written Fuzhuan—...

When most tea lovers outside China speak of dark tea, they usually mean the fully oxidised leaves of Assam or Ceylon. Yet on the ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value is measured not by the tende...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...