For centuries, the major tea producing countries have been China, Japan and India, which have all long been known as the source of most tea products. In the last two hundred years or so Taiwan and Ceylon have joined the major tea producer list with Africa and even the U.S now growing the evergreen from which tea leaves come, albeit on a smaller scale.

Regardless of what some folks may think, white tea is not black tea with too much milk added to it. Instead, the name refers to leaves that are picked from the same plant as green tea, but which undergo a very different process. It begins with the rolled buds of the Camellia Sinensis plant, but suffers no oxidation.