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

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

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

When most international drinkers think of Chinese dark tea, the pressed disks of Yunnan Pu-erh usually steal the spotlight. Yet 1...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese da...

Tucked into the limestone folds of southern Guangxi, where the West River bends like a calligrapher’s brushstroke, Liupu tea has ...

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

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...

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