KUURA 2025 ‘Inkstone’ Ripe Pu’er Tea

Softer says:

Don’t think you need our tasting notes on this one. “A cake is a sample” territory here, pick one up for you and your loved ones today. Can’t wait to taste. 

SET & SETTING, BY KUURACORP:

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 cold day.

When brewed, this tea releases a deeply 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.