When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the malty depth of ripe Pu-erh. Yet farther north, in the wind-s...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a dark tea that even many Chinese city-dwellers have never tasted, yet it once fue...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its brooding middle age, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān—must be the wi...

Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts...

Tucked beneath the humid emerald mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centu...

Liu Bao—pronounced “lyow-bow”—is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh hogs the spotlight, Liu Bao has spen...

Tucked into the misty folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quietest...

Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the ar...

Liu Bao, pronounced “lee-ow bao,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines and Fu Zhuan bri...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-studded borderlands of Guangxi Province, Liupao dark tea has spent four centuries perfecting the ...