Light
Orange peel, honey, bright and clean. Best for pour-over.
Estate coffee · Chikmagalur, Karnataka
From one red cherry to your morning cup.
Shade-grown Arabica and Robusta from our family estate in the Baba Budan hills, roasted to order and shipped across India.
The estate
Grown slow, in the shade of silver oak.
Our 40-acre estate sits at 1,100 m in the hills above Chikmagalur, where coffee first took root in India. Tall silver oaks shade every bush, black-pepper vines climb their trunks, and the cherries ripen slowly through the monsoon: sweeter, rounder, never rushed.
- 1,100 mabove sea level
- 40acres under shade
- 1987first harvest
Cherry to green bean
Pulped, washed, sun-dried.
Inside every ripe cherry sit two flat-faced seeds. Getting them out cleanly is half the flavour.
- 01
Picked ripe
Only red cherries, by hand, in three or four rounds per bush.
- 02
Pulped
The skin slips off the same day, revealing two pale green beans.
- 03
Washed
A night in fermentation tanks, then rinsed in spring water.
- 04
Sun-dried
10 to 12 days on open patios, raked every hour.
- 05
Rested
Beans rest in parchment for 60 days before hulling.
Roast levels
One drum. Three roasts. Watched by hand.
We roast in small batches every Monday and Thursday. Keep scrolling and watch the beans go from green to cinnamon to deep brown.
Medium
Caramel, cocoa, round body. Pour-over, French press, filter coffee.
Dark
Bittersweet, smoky, thick. Filter coffee with milk.
First crack is the little pop you hear when the beans release steam, at around 196°C. Light roasts stop just after it.
Brew guide
Two ways we love it.
- Add medium-fine coffee to the top chamber of a steel filter and press lightly with the plunger.
- Pour just-boiled water over it, close the lid and let the decoction drip for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Boil milk till frothy, add decoction and sugar to taste.
- Pour from tumbler to bowl and back, high, for that froth.
- Grind medium (like sea salt). Rinse the paper filter with hot water.
- Water at 92 to 94°C. Bloom with a little water for 30 seconds.
- Pour slowly in circles, in three rounds.
- Aim to finish in about 3 minutes. Drink it black first.
- Coffee
- 20 g
- Water
- 100 ml
- Milk
- 240 ml
Shop · roasted to order
Estate Reserve Arabica
Jaggery, orange peel and milk chocolate. Medium roast, smooth enough to drink black.
₹449
Roasted every Monday and Thursday · Ships across India in 2 to 4 days · Free shipping above ₹999