If green tea is the fresh spring breeze in a Chinese garden, Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the mellow autumn twilight that has t...

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 green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea—dark, rugged, and quietly humming with living spo...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most migratory; it once traveled farther than sil...

Few beverages carry the perfume of desert caravans and imperial granaries as vividly as Fu brick tea. Born in the lake-studded pl...

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...

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