India - Ginimao

Origin: India

State: Karnataka

District: Chikmagalur

Region: Baba Budan Giri/ Western Ghats

Farm: Ginimao Estate

Producer: Steven Rebello

Elevation: 1125 masl

Varietals: S795

Process: Washed

Roast Level: Light/Medium

Tasting Notes: Pineapple, Blood Orange, Almond Pastry, Caramel, Sweet & Balanced

This is our first ever coffee offering from India, and we are super excited to be adding such a unique coffee from Asia onto our roster of coffees . We had the pleasure of connecting with KaadKaapi to help us source some of these incredible coffees from India. KaadKaapi is a collective of coffee farmers in India who love their land and share together a passion for Wildlife, Nature and Coffee.

The members of KaadKaapi are dedicated to ensuring the long term sustainability of coffee and a commitment to supporting wildlife conservation in the area. They provide farmers with access to finance, advisement to produce high quality coffees, and handle exportation of these specialty coffees to international markets. Their coffee estates are cultivated in the hills of the Western Ghats of India, which is recognized as one of the world's eight biodiversity hotspots. It is extraordinarily rich in unique species and contains more than 30 percent of all plant, fish, reptile, amphibian, bird and mammal species found in India. The southern Western Ghats has the largest contiguous tiger and single largest Asiatic Elephant populations in the world.

This first coffee we are releasing from India comes from producer Steven Rebello of Ginimao Estate. Steven Rebello is a leader in sustainable agronomy and is a second-generation coffee farmer of his family’s 65-year legacy farm at Ginimao Estate. Ginimao Estate was one of the early members of the KaadKaapi collective, and shares in its mission of commitment to producing exceptional coffee while safeguarding the delicate biodiversity of the Western Ghats. The coffee estate is located close to the Bhadra Tiger Reserve and wild life sanctuary. Steven has pioneered innovative farming methods at estate, being the first in the Indian coffee industry to treat wastewater with a biogas digester; an organic process that’s also sustainable. They also actively participate in wildlife conservation efforts by restricting the use of chemicals and maintaining a dense canopy cover that provides ideal habitats for the fauna of the ecologically diverse area to thrive.

We couldn't be more excited to share this unique coffee with you, it has both complex yet very crowd pleasing qualities that any coffee drinker would be sure to appreciate. This is a fun coffee to experiment with; it is great as a drip coffee and also works great as a single origin espresso. If you have never tried India specialty coffee before this one surely won't disappoint, so grab some of this lot while you can.