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 ...

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...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to Western palates. Within this shadowed...

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

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the malty depth of ripe Pu-erh. Yet farther north, in the wind-s...

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