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

Liu Bao—pronounced “lee-ow bao”—is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh hoards the limelight, this cousin f...

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

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

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Wuzhou, Guangxi, gave birth to a tea that ...

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

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

Tucked into the humid folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent the last four centuries q...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting whi...

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