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We have had a guest white tea for several months now and thanks to the care and attention that the Prakash family dedicate to the production of their tea we have received rave reviews.  So, you can now buy this wonderful tea in our shop & soon online.   Read more below... Darjeeling Silver Needle A rare white tea made in tiny batches.  Harvested in midsummer when the silvery green buds are about to unfold.  The silver velvety appearance is from the fine white  pubescence on leaf bud.  It is harvested very carefully to preserve the texture of each bud....

Comins Tea House is born out of a passion for tea.  Pure and simple.  Tea.  The Leaf. Unblended. The ceremony.  The amazing natural flavours.  & the joy that we get from finding great teas and sharing them with you. For a new tea to join the shelves at Comins it takes time.  Time to visit the plantations, meet the growers, understand the tea culture.  We promise when new teas do join us it will be worth the wait.  Our new Taiwanese teas selected on Robs recent trip {that many of you have already sampled and loved} should be just 3...

With half term upon us many of you are probably thinking of things to do with your family.  Taking tea together may not currently be top of your list but we are increasingly finding that our amazing young people find the world of loose leaf tea just as fascinating as the rest of us.  We have had the pleasure of welcoming many families to the Tea House & sharing tea with some budding tea experts and entrepreneurs. But don't just take our word for it.  This week if you come into the Tea House you may just have the pleasure...

We love going on the road.  We love meeting new people, sharing tea and, in the process hearing about their passions.  It can lead to new partnerships and connections, some more surprising than others.... For those of you already familiar with us you will know that we specialise in personally sourced {we visit the estates} single estate tea.  We don't blend for our own label as we believe that the fine teas we find for you speak for themselves, as they are, on their own.  So you might wonder what an Earl Grey Comins Style might look like...read on to...

Have you read Hole & Corner yet?  If not then we highly recommend you visit their website and find out where you can get hold of a copy.  This beautiful magazine, in their words, "celebrates craft, beauty, passion and skill" and is full of fascinating stories of "people who spend more time 'doing' than ‘talking’, 
who put content above style, whose work is their life" Why are we sharing this with you?  Well, when we were at Best of Britannia {BoB} earlier this year, the H&C team passed by our stall and we agreed to catch up when we were back in Dorset....