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.

Although the facts are debatable, tea, as a beverage, is older than coffee, wine and maybe even older than beer. Some may argue about the latter, since some types of beer may be as old as 10,000 years, while tea has only been around for about 5,000. Fair point but let's agree to disagree and just say that tea is old, whichever way you look at it.

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.