When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the malty depth of a Yunnan ripe pu-erh. Yet 1,200 km northeast ...

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

Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (sometimes spelled “Li...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent the ...

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 away in the humid, karst-pitted mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the mellow, earthy disks of Yunnan Pu-erh. Yet 1,200 km to the n...

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

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuri...

Tucked into the creased limestone hills of Guangxi Province, Liu Bao Cha—literally “Six Forts Tea”—has spent four centuries quiet...