India Ratnagiri Estate

This is an estate coffee with Rainforest Alliance certification. We met the farmer earlier this year and he was very excited about this coffee. His farm is part of a tiger reserve, and wild tigers roam around his coffee plants. 

It's a really versatile coffee that can be roasted from very light to very dark, but for us the sweet spot is just into the second cracks. This is where you can taste some of the spicy notes. Roasts darker than this begin to taste flat but not necessarily burnt. There's still some sweetness and character in the beans even 40 seconds into the 2nd cracks. 

A fun story behind a coffee from an often overlooked origin!

US Arrival: February 2024