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China 2024 Day 4 : Exploring the tea wonderland of Wuyi Shan

China 2024 Day 4 : Exploring the tea wonderland of Wuyi Shan

Welcome to the fifth 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!. Our last blog saw us spending time with teacher Su learning all about the song Dynasty tea culture and the art of tea whisking.  After our wonderful...

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China 2024 Day 3 : Exploring Song Dynasty tea culture & the art of tea whisking

China 2024 Day 3 : Exploring Song Dynasty tea culture & the art of tea whisking

Welcome to the fourth 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!. You may recall from our last blog that we had enjoyed a wonderful visit to the tea museum.  Here we had seen some of the ancient & modern...

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China 2024 Day 3 : Xiaohu town : Ms Zeng & Mr Shen

China 2024 Day 3 :  Xiaohu town : Ms Zeng & Mr Shen

Welcome to the third 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 second blog we shared our time with Mr Lang & Liou Juli.  When the time came to leave we boarded a train to meet Ms Zeng -...

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China 2024 Day 2 : China Day 2 : Green tea with Liao Juli & Mr Lang

China 2024 Day 2 : China Day 2 : Green tea with Liao Juli & Mr Lang

Welcome to the second 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 first blog we shared our time in Yixing.  From here we were to head to Hangzhou East where we would meet one of my earliest...

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China 2024 Day 1 : Yixing: the home of Zisha Teapots

China 2024 Day 1 : Yixing: the home of Zisha Teapots

Welcome to the first 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!. .We started this years trip with a whistle-stop afternoon in Yixing to see our old friend Mr Fan and Liqin Fan.  We have written about...

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