Inkstone Ripe Puerh, Kuura Cola

Take a walk through the forest and don’t forget to smell the trees.

The first pressing of its kind, ‘Inkstone’ is our take on a classically earthy-woody ripe puerh profile, whilst still maintaining a clean fermentation and flavour. It’s the perfect tea to warm up with and enjoy by the fire on a rain’t day.

When brewed, this tea releases a deep, resinous fragrance that brings to mind the soothing scent of a conifer forest, rain soaked wood, and petrichor. It has a supple mouthfeel, a pronounced wet wood flavour with low bitterness and astringency, and a lingering mineral aftertaste. While this tea was made to have a distinctly woody profile, there’s still plenty of sweetness to be found. In comparison to the rum-and-raisin funk of 2025 ‘Kuura-Cola’ Ripe Puerh Tea, Inkstone has a more herbaceous, cool-leaning sweetness with an aromatic smokey edge. Think traditional incense made from cedar, juniper, and cypress woods, or stepping into a wood stove heated sauna by the lake.

‘Inkstone’ is a uniquely immersive ripe puerh to brew and drink, the kind of ripe we enjoy smelling in-between steeps as much as drinking. Enjoy it grandpa style in a mug and let the rain fall on your face, or better yet, bring it with you on a weekend away and experiment with dosage, steep time, and number of re-steeps to see how this tea’s fragrance and flavour evolve.

2023 tea material produced in Yunnan, China, pressed in 2025.

200g per compressed cake