Folks all over the globe take pleasure in drinking wu long tea, which is also known as wu-long, wulong or oolong tea, for its distinctive flavour and natural health benefits. There are numerous varieties of this aromatic beverage, each one with a slightly different flavor, color and fragrance. Amongst the better-known varieties are Formosa, Tie Guan Yin, Shui Xian and Da Hong Poa.

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.

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.