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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...

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.    

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 as details on shipping [please, if you can, order early due to strikes!] & click & collect Next week we are also delighted to invite you to a couple of special events : our Dark...

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 Taiwanese tea to the world, make the teas, their stories & the island more well known & of course encourage...