Liu Bao—pronounced “lee-ow bao”—is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this Guangxi nati...

Fu Brick, known in Chinese as Fu Zhuan Cha, is the most aromatically complex member of China’s dark tea family. Unlike the better...

If black tea is the extrovert of the tea family, greeting the world with brisk malt and bright red liquor, then dark tea—known in...

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 least exported yet most storied. Within this shadowed ...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh has conquered auction houses and soc...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most migratory: it was born on the misty mountain...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (六堡茶, literally “S...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense, chocolate-brown blocks that weigh exactly one kilogr...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to global drinkers. Within tha...