Traditionally, especially in the old cowboy westerns, the good guy always wore a white hat but not so when it comes to tea drinking as black is definitely the good guy. All true tea is the product of the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant. However, what a difference a little oxygen and sunlight can make. Green tea is very lightly oxidized with Oolong moderately so and black tea the most heavily oxidized of them all. There is even a fourth variety, white tea, which rarely makes it to western shores.










