Understated flavors of strawberry syrup, star fruit, green apple, passion fruit and bubblegum with simultaneously vibrant and saturated flavors of date, sarsaparilla, chocolate, spruce, birch and a captivating spiciness that carries into the long. Makes for an amazing single origin espresso.
We have been sampling beta processing lots produced by Shravan Shankar over the past few years and this is officially our first year ever offering a natural process coffee from Kalledevarapura. Shravan has outdone himself with this coffee by capturing a range of elusive fruity characteristics in the natural process while preserving a juicy and refined spiciness that holds into a long finish.
This coffee is grown in the Western Ghat mountains by D.M. Shankar and family who own and steward this land. Their complex approach to poly-culture farming includes providing a dense shade canopy of silver oak, jack fruit and fig with companion planting in the understory of vanilla, cardamom, and pepper vines. The orchard is home to a broad diversity of fauna including Jungle Pigeon, owl, deer, fox and wild boar.
The farm dates back to 1865 when it was first established by the British. In 1950, the farm changed hands to Shankar and, in turn, has undergone several changes regarding the coffee varieties planted there. The S-795 variety is now the primary cultivar. S-795 was created in the 1940’s by crossing two older Indian varieties, Kents and S-288.
The Kalle Natural has been shade grown in a polyculture forest farm environment and has been cultivated without the use of pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers.
After repose, this coffee is sealed in Grain-Pro barrier packaging at origin and then sent on its way to our Roastery where we preserve the green coffee under hermetic seal until it is roasted as part of our Barrington Green Seal Program© .
This coffee is available as a part of our Kalle Micro-lot Tasting Pair as well as part of our Kalledevarapura Micro-lot Sampler and Kalle Quad Sampler.