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 he ..read more

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  ..read more

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 experien ..read more

The last few weeks have seen the opening of the 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 i ..read more

We have had many messages from tea lovers who are following our Advent videos on Instagram asking for a list of the teas we are enjoying [& who would like to purchase some tea to taste along with].  So here you go! . Join Michelle everyday up to the 24th December on Instagram at 7am to enjoy a moment of calm & connection at what can be a very busy time of year .     ..read more

WOW! It's December already & in these beautifully dark winter days tea is a most necessary companion!  We have started to receive emails asking for our recommendations for gifting this Christmas - so here we offer you our Comins guide to feeling calm & connected [through tea] this Christmas.  We also include our opening times through to the new year [yes...this year we are open in Bath between Christmas & New Year & also open in Dorset on SATURDAY 17th December] as well ..read more

Through a series of blogs based around the recent visit of our friend & partner Philip from Taiwan [which was fabulous and we are so grateful for] we are excited to share more about our collection of Taiwanese teas.  In this 3rd blog [you can find the first blog on white tea here & you can read the second blog on green tea here] we are taking a closer look at one of some of the most intriguing teas in our collection : Taiwanese Oolong Tea. Our aim, as was Philip's in making his visit to us, is to bring ..read more

Through a series of blogs based around the recent visit of our friend & partner Philip from Taiwan [which was fabulous and we are so grateful for] we are excited to share more about our collection of Taiwanese teas.  In this 2nd blog [you can find the first blog here] we are taking a closer look at one of our favourite Taiwanese green teas : Taiwan Bi Luo Chun.  . Our aim, as was Philip's in making his visit to us, is to bring Taiwanese tea to the world, make the teas, their stories & the island more well known & of course encourage ..read more

Tea : the perfect way to explore the diversity of Taiwanese culture.  How to explore?  Through your senses of course  - through your taste & sense of smell you will experience the diversity of what the taiwanese culture is all about.  Lets put the kettle on : through a series of blogs based around the recent visit of our friend & partner Philip from Taiwan [which was fabulous and we are so grateful for] we are excited to share more about our collection of Taiwanese teas.  You can expect information about some of our most popular teas intertwined ..read more

Welcome to the fourth in a series of blogs from our Spring/Summer trip to Darjeeling : you can find the first three here : Blog 1 :  'A new side to Darjeeling : Tunglabong' and Blog 2 : 'The rise of a new generation : Burbung Busty'; Blog 3 : Darjeeling 2022 : Onwards to Poobong & the sweetest green tea . This blog finds us at Nuxalbari Tea Estate in the Dooars a place Michelle last visited in 2018.  We have shared stories from Nuxalbari before in our book and also on the blog.  For this bog we are specifically looking at the question : can biodivers ..read more