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OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE IS BELOW  Please excuse the formatting - this content is taken directly from our newsletter! Hello Tea Friends. We hope that you are doing well!  At Comins it is time once again for us to send you our Christmas Gift Guide.  It's been a wonderful year working with partners old & new & we hope you like browsing some of our top picks.  We are also sharing our opening hours over the festive period [including the last two weeks of our Shatwell Tea House] and hope you may be able to join us to share some tea together.  We realise this...

Following Michelles trip to South Korea this Spring we are delighted to offer you two new teas from  Wanjun Kim in Hadong.  The first is this Jungjak green [Grassy, nutty and clean] & the second this Jungjak Black tea [Rich, Honey, Fruity].  Many of you may not yet have had the pleasure of enjoying teas from this region  - so before you do we are glad to bring you a little insight.  Thank you very much to  Wanjun Kim for sharing this with us.  KOREAN TEA GRADES In Korean tea, the grades are classified based on the time of harvest, with the main categories being...

Welcome to the eleventh in our series of blogs documenting our tea & teaware sourcing trip to China & South Korea.  At Comins we are very fortunate to have friends all over the tea world.  When we visit them on our trips we promise to share what we learn & in our recent survey you shared that our blog is one of the best ways to do that.  So we hope you enjoy the journey! In our last blog we were in Huoshan, Anhui County exploring Yellow Tea and after that incredible experience it was time to once again board the train and head off to...

Welcome to the tenth in our series of blogs documenting our tea & teaware sourcing trip to China & South Korea.  At Comins we are very fortunate to have friends all over the tea world.  When we visit them on our trips we promise to share what we learn & in our recent survey you shared that our blog is one of the best ways to do that.  So we hope you enjoy the journey! In our last blog we shared the rare & wonderful opportunity we enjoyed to visit the Jiangxi Wuyuan vocational college.  From there we were to head to Huoshan, Anhui...

Welcome to the ninth in our series of blogs documenting our tea & teaware sourcing trip to China & South Korea.  At Comins we are very fortunate to have friends all over the tea world.  When we visit them on our trips we promise to share what we learn & in our recent survey you shared that our blog is one of the best ways to do that.  So we hope you enjoy the journey! In our last blog we were in the historically important area of Wuyuan.  Today was to be a little different but no less special.  We were to...