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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...

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 -...

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...

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...

In April we were honored to welcome three very special visitors to Comins to share the story of Artisan Sri Lankan tea with us; [from left to right]  Simon, Buddhika & Neethanjama.  Buddhika is a great friend of ours at Comins and we were delighted to welcome him again - this time with friends from the  Ceylon Artisanal Tea Association (CATA).   . . The group were at Comins to share the story [& of course taste] the new wave of handmade teas from Sri Lanka.  We started with Simon Bell sharing a bit of the history of the Sri Lankan tea industry with us . 'Sri...