Price $2.56 per pound
Bag Weight 132.31 lbs
Position Spot
Bag 1
Warehouses Oakland
Flavor Profile Apple, peanut butter, malt, chocolate, spiced
Please Note This coffee landed more than 8 months ago.
Periyamalai Estate
1400 Masl
Selection 13; Chandragiri
Volcanic loam
Kanalkadu, Tamil Nadue, India
Fully washed and dried in the sun
November
Conventional
If you think coffee from India sounds uncommon, wait until you hear about the Western Ghats mountain range where this coffee was cultivated. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most biologically diverse places in the world with more than 5,000 species of flowering plants and 508 different species of birds. The Neelakurinji flower is so uncommon that it only blooms every twelve years. And the legends say that the Western Ghats mountain range is the location where the first cultivated coffee in India arrived, from seven raw beans brought from Mocha by a Sufi saint on a pilgrimage to Mecca in the 17th century. But this lot did not magically arrive at Royal. Rather, it comes from the Periyamalai Estate, which has 26 acres cultivated with coffee, Avocados, Areca nuts, and peppers. The estate has its own mill where coffee cherries are sorted, depulped, fermented, washed and then dried on patios.