Indian Pearl Mountain Estate – Top Lot

Description

The Pearl Mountain Estate has been growing coffee in India since the 1920s when Shivappaiy Patre bought 300 acres on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats mountains. The same family manages the estate today. The land is close to where a Muslim pilgrim known as Bababudan first planted coffee in India with seeds he had brought from Yemen. Hence, to this day, these hills are called the Bababudan range and is home to the finest mountain grown Indian Arabica coffee.

The Patre family is extremely quality conscious. The coffee is grown under shade trees midst pepper vines and cardamom groves. The carefully picked cherries are sorted prior to pulping, fermented between 42 and 72 hours and hand-washed in water from clear mountain streams.

Tasting Notes: A nice stronger cup of coffee, lower acidity with good body to it. Lighter roasts do get a little hint of a citrus acidity mixing with a mellow spice note and just a hint of a chocolaty dark tone. Medium roasts drop off all the acidity and leave more of a syrupy body with a bit stronger spice note. Dark roasts a bold and strong with a bit of pepper bite to it along with a bit of roasty notes.

Roasting Notes: Darker roasts were preferred by most here. Big bold and spicy is quite the combination. Lighter roasts risk a little grassy tone (city roast) full city was a very pleasant cup and good everyday drinker but the coffee shined at a dark roast with its bolder tones.