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 ...

Tucked into the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the small town of Liubao has given the world a tea th...

Few teas carry the perfume of history as literally as Fu brick tea. When camel bells faded into the Gobi dusk, the bricks that l...

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...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small district of Liu Bao in Guangxi has been quietly producing on...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value is measured not by the tende...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked hills of southern Guangxi, Liupao tea has spent four centuries quietly transforming from a...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) has been quietly perfecting...

Tucked away in the southern folds of Guangxi Province, where the Xun and Gui Rivers braid through limestone peaks, Liu Bao tea ha...