Tucked away in the mountainous northwest of Hunan Province, the small city of Anhua has been guarding a secret for more than five...

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

Tucked into the cloud-veiled folds of north-western Hunan, the small county of Anhua has been quietly shaping the soul of Chinese...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of Hunan Province, a dark, brick-shaped tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six cent...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the contemplative middle-aged sage, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān c...

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—has always been the most itinerant. Compressed into brick...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—stands apart because it refuses to stand still. While green tea ch...

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

Few beverages can claim to have financed armies, soothed nomad thirst, and evolved a microscopic golden flora that connoisseurs n...

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