Few beverages carry the dust of the Silk Road in every leaf, yet Fu brick tea—compressed, fermented, and secretly flowered—does e...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey-brown build...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, Liu Bao has spent f...

Few teas carry the romance of trans-Asian caravans as vividly as Fu brick tea. Compressed into dark, iron-hard blocks, scented fa...

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

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into obsidian-black blocks that weigh a kilogra...

Tucked into the humid folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (sometimes spelled Liu Bao) is the quiet...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea, a dark, tightly compressed rectangle that once served as currency along t...

Tucked into the subtropical folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the small town of Liubao has given its na...

Tucked into the misty mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liubao cha is the quiet genius of the dark-...