Herbal Tea   /  Black Tea  /  White Tea  /  Green Tea  /  Matcha  /  Oolong 
 Rooibos  /  Ayurvedic Teas   /  Puerrh Teas

"I am so glad to have found the Tea Boutique, now I love loose leaf tea. The lunch was amazing."
Cheryl ~ Caledon

From the hills of Sri Lanka and India to the mountains and valleys of Kenya, tea is grown in some of the world's most exotic places.

Four basic types of tea are produced and enjoyed worldwide: black, green, oolong and white teas. Interestingly, all these teas come from the raw leaves of the same tea plant, Camellia sinensis which in the wild can grow 90 feet or more. What distinguishes each category is the method used when processing the tea leaves. The way the leaves are processed, steamed, fermented (oxidized), dried or bruised, gives the tea the special characteristics of its category. In the past, in some countries, monkeys were trained to pick the tea leaves and toss them to the ground. Today the Camellia Sinensis bush is grown as an important plantation crop and is kept to a height of three feet for easy cultivation.