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

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

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a small township in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, yet to tea lovers it...

Tucked beneath the humid, fog-laced mountains of southern Guangxi, the small river town of Wuzhou guards a tea secret that once t...

Tucked into the creased limestone hills of Guangxi Province, half a day’s drive west of the Pearl River delta, lies the small riv...

Few beverages can claim to have financed dynasties, pacified frontiers and still be poured in nomad yurts thirteen centuries late...

Tucked beneath the humid karst hills of Guangxi, Liupu tea waits like a quiet archive of Chinese history. To the uninitiated it ...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once lubr...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value appreciates with decades—eve...

Tucked beneath the humid karst mountains of southern China, Liupu tea has spent three centuries quietly fermenting in terracotta ...