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In May 2023 we headed to Japan & Taiwan for our Spring Tea Travels.  This short blog documents our time spent travelling - visiting tea friends & partners - tea towns, & tea fields.  As we prepare for 2024 travels we hope you enjoy this reflective read & then, when you browse our teas & teaware, find a greater feeling for and connection with the people & place behind them. Japan & Taiwan 2023 Spring Tea Travels Day 1 : Tokoname :  Tomohiro & Gyokuryu Kiln  : An amazing day exploring Tokoname - we had wanted to come here for many years and it lived...

Welcome to our year with tea Throughout 2024 we will be sharing our year with tea; embracing tea through the seasons both at home & in the tea fields.   As this is the only full year our pop up Shatwell Tea House will be open we are taking the opportunity to document the space throughout the year & share it with you all.  In this blog we offer our reflections on February - starting with stories from the Shatwell Tea House and then looking at activity with some of our friends and partners around the tea world. For February our theme was awakening - the light starts to return and we...

Welcome to our year with tea Throughout 2024 we will be sharing our year with tea; embracing tea through the seasons both at home & in the tea fields.   As this is the only full year our pop up Shatwell Tea House will be open we are taking the opportunity to document the space throughout the year & share it with you all.  In this blog we offer our reflections on January - starting with stories from the Shatwell Tea House and then looking at activity with some of our friends and partners around the tea world. . For January our theme was simplicity - our actions centred...

Welcome to the 2023 Comins Christmas Gift Guide Hello tea friends.  We hope you are doing well out there and enjoying the wonders that Winter brings.  At this time of year we look forward to sending out this, our Christmas gift guide, to share some of the teas, teaware & experiences that we love the most.  We know that Christmas means different things to different people so whether it is about treating yourself to a favourite tea that you can simply sit, sip & savour or offering tea & the wonderful tea experience to someone you know will appreciate it we hope we have you...

The last few weeks have seen the opening of Comins X Shatwell pop up Tea House at the Shatwell Farm; the culmination of an incredible few months.  Many of our regular tea friends came to help us mark the occasion [for which we are extremely grateful] and perhaps the most common questions was 'how did all of this come about?'.  So why not put the kettle on & let us share the story......Michelle : We came to know Shatwell Farm through our great friend Eleanor Goulding [one half of the amazing Denman & Gould 'an art and design studio specialising in public and community-based projects'].  Elle had enjoyed...