Tea Types Explained: Black, Green, Oolong, White, Pu-erh, and Herbal

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How the main tea families differ by processing, flavor, caffeine, brewing style, and beginner friendliness. Treat tea as a small craft made from leaf, water, heat, time, and attention. The goal is a better next cup, not a perfect performance.

The practical idea

Tea Types Explained becomes easier when you connect the name on the package to a real job in the cup. Ask what you want this tea decision to do: taste clean in a mug, hold milk, stay gentle, brew cold, support a tasting, travel well, or make a shelf more useful.

Taiwanese Tea Path: Baozhong, High Mountain Oolong, Oriental Beauty, and Ruby Black

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Taiwanese tea is easy to flatten into one phrase, usually “high mountain oolong,” but the island’s tea shelf is wider than that. It includes lightly oxidized Baozhong, rolled mountain oolongs with creamy and floral aromas, more oxidized bug-bitten teas such as Oriental Beauty, roasted everyday oolongs, fragrant black teas, and a growing set of experimental styles. The useful beginner path is not to memorize every mountain name. It is to understand why Taiwanese teas so often sit at the meeting point between green freshness, oolong fragrance, careful oxidation, and patient brewing.

Oolong Tea on Fondsites

Tea Types Explained: Black, Green, Oolong, White, Pu-erh, and Herbal

The practical idea

Taiwanese Tea Path: Baozhong, High Mountain Oolong, Oriental Beauty, and Ruby Black