We recently put in granite and love it. I didn't want anything in the brown tones, so we chose a granite named Steel Rock. It's mostly black with flecks of gray in it. It is stunning. I wipe it down, but don't need to dry it, but I often do, because it's still so new to me (like a man lovingly washing and buffing his new car repeatedly.) We looked at quartz, which was significantly more expensive (about 1/3 again as much) but didn't like that most of it had glittery sparkles in it. We thought that was a fad, and wanted the timeless beauty of natural stone. I will say that a friend sent me photos of the high gloss black countertops in a condo they rented cautioning me against all black high gloss. The water spots WERE terrible.