Tea: the World's second most popular beverage

Although many different flowers and herbs can be dried, steeped in hot water, and called "tea", actual tea leaves come from the plant camellia sinensis. In the same way that you can buy a product called peach "wine", it is widely understood that true wine is made from grapes. What we call chamomile "tea" is actually an herbal tisane, not actual tea. Scented varieties of tea, such as jasmine green tea or Earl Grey, are to authentic tea what sangria is to wine. Just as you would not use a fine wine to make sangria, you would not take fine tea and blend it with other flavors.

There are six main categories of tea: Green, Yellow, White, Wu Long (sometimes spelled Oolong), Red (known in the West as Black), and actual Black.