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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least understood outside Asia, yet it once underwrote t...

Few beverages can claim to have financed armies, pacified frontiers, and still be sipped daily by nomads eight centuries later. F...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most itinerant; it was born on the humid tea hill...

Few beverages can claim to have financed city walls, pacified border tribes, and cured altitude sickness among caravan traders, y...

If black tea is the flamboyant diplomat of the Chinese tea family, dark tea (heicha) is its quiet philosopher, content to mature ...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of northern Hunan province, a tea has been quietly fermenting for more than three centuries, i...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey-brown build...

Few teas carry the romance of trans-Asian caravans as vividly as Fu brick tea. Compressed into dark, iron-hard blocks, scented fa...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into obsidian-black blocks that weigh a kilogra...