2025 'Inkstone' Ripe Puerh Tea
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.
Wrapper artwork by ERODUCTIONS.
Pictures by Pingle Pictures.
2023 tea material produced in Yunnan, China, pressed in 2025.
200g per compressed cake, with 5 cakes per traditionally wrapped bamboo tong.
All orders are shipped from our HQ in Melbourne within 1-2 business days, using Australia Post.
Australia: $9.95 AUD flat-rate standard shipping, free above $75 AUD. $14.95 AUD flat-rate express shipping, free above $100 AUD.
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Europe: $35 AUD flat-rate, free above $150 AUD.
Canada: $30 CAD flat-rate, free above $130 CAD.
United States of America: Tiered pricing based on order weight, with a choice of either Standard, or Express with Signature. Tariffs are calculated automatically and collected at checkout.
Use boiling water (100C).
We recommend using approx 1g of tea per 15ml of water for gongfu-style brewing in a teapot or gaiwan. Rinse the leaves once and then brew as usual. You can re-steep the leaves several times until there's no flavour left.
For Western-style brewing in a larger teapot, use approx 5g tea per 100ml of water. You can re-brew the leaves a few times.
To brew direct in a mug, use 1-2g of tea in the bottom of the cup, fill to top with boiling water, and drink once cool. Re-fill the cup with more water when you've drunk 1/3rd of the tea. Repeat until there's no more flavour left.
All of our teas are suitable for long-term storage and ageing.
Keep your tea away from sunlight and strong smells, and somewhere with stable climate conditions.
You can keep it sealed inside the re-usable bag the tea comes in, or another non-porous container.