Liu Bao cha—literally “Six Forts tea”—owes its name to the six ancient stockade villages that once guarded the trade pass linking...

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China, Liu Bao cha is the quiet diplomat of the dark-tea world. While Pu-erh...

Tucked away in the subtropical hills of Guangxi Province, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the mellow, earthy disks of Yunnan Pu-erh. Yet four provinces to...

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

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a once-secret black tea that has been quietly mellowing in the karst mountains of ...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea” they picture the coppery, fully oxidised leaves that British teapots made fam...

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

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

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region lies a tea that once fueled...