India Ghats Specialty Peaberry – BLEND – 28063 – SPOT CCARGO

Coffee Background

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 small farms, which average just a few acres cultivated with coffee, Avocados, oranges, and peppers.  Each farmer uses their own mill where coffee cherries are sorted, depulped, fermented, washed and then dried on patios. The rounder shaped peaberry, formed from the maturation of one seed per cherry rather than the typical two seeds, is sorted during the dry-milling process using screens and prepared separately for export because of its distinct flavor profiles.