Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea, a dark, tightly compressed rectangle that once served as currency along t...

Few teas carry the dust of the ancient Silk Road in every leaf as vividly as Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense black rectangles, t...

If you walk into any Tibetan nomad’s black yak-hair tent at 4 000 m on the Qinghai–Tibet plateau, the first thing offered is not ...

Few beverages can claim to have shaped the geography, economy and even the microbiology of an entire region, yet Fu brick tea—kno...

If black tea is the dark knight of the Camellia sinensis family, then Fu brick (Fú zhuān, 茯砖) is its alchemist—quietly turning le...

Tucked into the cloud-veiled folds of Hunan’s Xuefeng Mountains, Anhua Dark Tea has spent five centuries perfecting the art of pa...

Few beverages can claim to have financed dynasties, pacified frontiers and still be poured in nomad yurts thirteen centuries late...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once lubr...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its brooding middle age, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān—must be the wi...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once serv...