Shade-grown beneath the rainforest canopy of Kodagu, Coorg coffee is mellow, low in acidity and deeply aromatic — the South-Indian filter cup that built a whole ritual around it.
Source location
Madikeri, Kodagu
Kodagu, Karnataka · 12.42°N, 75.74°E
Coffee that grows in the shade
Coorg planters grow their coffee under tall native trees, pepper vines spiralling up the trunks. This shade-grown method ripens the cherry slowly and gives the bean its rounded, chocolatey body — a far cry from the sharp, sun-baked coffees of other regions.
From cherry to filter decoction
Hand-picked cherries are pulped, fermented and sun-dried on estate patios, then roasted dark for the classic South-Indian filter blend. Ground fresh and steeped slowly in a brass filter, it yields the thick decoction that, with hot milk, becomes the kaapi of every Tamil and Kodava morning.
Why it earns a place here
We have no coffee SKU yet — but karupatti and filter coffee are old friends. A bitter-sweet kaapi against a nut-and-jaggery roll is a pairing that feels like a Sunday afternoon on a Coorg verandah. This is a sourcing story we hope to one day pour into a product.
We do not plant coffee in a field. We plant it in a forest, and the forest gives it its taste.
A pairing, not a product — yet
There is no coffee product yet — brew a strong Coorg filter decoction and pair it with our Karupatti Munthiri Roll. The bitter kaapi and the sweet cashew roll were made for each other.
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