Esprit de Corp: 2025 Membership

We're excited to offer membership to our 2025 Esprit de Corp tea club.

By signing up for an annual membership, you’ll receive exclusive teas and teaware in two shipments across the year. These products represent the cutting edge of our research and experimentation in the Yunnan mountains, and the outputs of our best minds in the hardware division. You'll also receive other benefits detailed below.

Memberships to 2025 Esprit de Corp is strictly limited to 100 places. Our inaugural 2023 Esprit de Corp was launched with a limited capacity of 50 memberships. In response to extreme demand following its first year, 2024 Esprit de Corp was released with an increased membership of 75 spots in total.

From this year onwards, all future Esprit de Corp memberships will have an absolute limit of 100 places. This allows us to appropriately handle the logistics involved, and most importantly, to continue to press enough of each tea produced for the club — some tea tree groves only produce 20 to 30kg of material in total each spring!

What you’ll receive

For the 2025 club, we plan to continue pressing unique, no-compromise puerh tea cakes, and offer unique and useful teaware and accessories, that will serve you well in any scenario. Any hardware we produce will also complement any existing teaware pieces from past years of the club, if you have them.

Membership to 2025 Esprit de Corp includes:

• Three exclusive, experimental, and premium 200g puerh tea cakes, comprised of two raw puerhs and one ripe puerh 
  
  
• One piece of custom teaware, different from previous years of the club
  
  
• At least one other tea accessory 
  
  
• Two printed zines with visual and textual documentation of our behind-the-scenes processes and inspirations
  

The first shipment will be as soon as possible after the spring season in Yunnan, comprising of a premium 200g raw puerh cake along with an accompanying zine and other goodies. We estimate this will be sent out in June.

The second shipment will be toward the end of the year and will contain two more puerh cakes (one raw and one ripe), as well as teaware, and the final accompanying zine. We estimate this will be sent out in November.

All teas pressed for Esprit de Corp follow an ethos of being high-end (old-tree), experimental, unique productions that we could not easily produce for mainstream retail and purchase. If you're a committed puerh drinker, sign up and come along for the ride.

Both packages are delivered with free shipping worldwide. Additionally, you can contact us to combine any products ordered in our online store with your next tea club shipment, providing you with free shipping for two orders throughout the year.

As an example, the 2024 Esprit de Corp contained:

• Three exclusive 200g puerh cakes, two raw and one ripe, all from high-end spring material.
  
  
• An exclusive black porcelain gaiwan fully developed from scratch and made in-house in Melbourne.
  
  
• Printed zine and stickers
  
  

None of the teas or other items from Esprit de Corp will be available outside of the club; they are all one-off productions made exclusively for members that year.

Other benefits

• Your name or chosen pseudonym will be printed on the back of each tea wrapper and in the zines. Please leave the name you’d like to appear (if any) as a note at checkout, or by letting us know when we send the welcome email. Eternal glory!
  
  
• As a 2025 member, you’ll be offered first rights for renewing membership in 2026 should you wish to continue, ensuring your place in the club.
  
  
• Our sincere gratitude. The club allows us to hit the mountains high-speed low-drag style and make some interesting teas.

Membership Terms and Conditions

Only one membership per person with a hard limit of 100 memberships per year. Note: you can purchase additional memberships as gifts, please leave a note at checkout. 

Membership is not refundable, transferrable, or cancellable once purchased. If there are any issues with shipments (i.e non-delivery, damaged goods, etc) we will ensure replacement and re-delivery with no added cost. 

Membership does not auto-renew, so you won’t be automatically billed or signed up for next year's tea club membership. We will get in touch directly with existing members at the start of 2026 with the first offer to renew, and if any spots open up we will release those memberships for purchase to the general public on our online store. 

Once membership is purchased, we will be in touch with more information on what to expect, as well as instructions on how to set up your membership details. 

Please note, pricing for the club is based on the shipping address country at checkout to account for the difference in shipping costs to each particular location.