Ratnagiri Estate

Ratnagiri, translating to "Pearl Mountains", has been owned by the Patre family for nearly a century. Ashok Patre is the 3rd generation to run this estate, working alongside his wife Divya. This particular coffee is their Phantom PH-4 lot, which is a honey process that presents remarkably clean and clear notes, more similar to a washed. 

Their innovative yet restrained processing methods have managed to highlight the unique flavor profiles of Indian coffees, without losing sight of delicate terroir and varietal characteristics. 

Cauvery, also known as Catimor, is a cross between Caturra and Hibrido de Timor. Thus, it is a cross between Arabica and Robusta, yielding a pleasantly sweet cup with a rounded acidity.

This is a honey process coffee. In-cherry fermentation for 48 hours, inoculated with lab microbes and partial dry depulping. Slow-dried on raised beds for 19 days.

Honey Process: Coffee processing has become so varied and innovative that it's hard to give a general overview of a certain "process", since producers can have small variations within their methods.
First and foremost, a "honey" process doesn't involve actual honey! The best way to think of this method is that it is somewhere between a washed and a natural process. Coffees are partially depulped before drying (some mucilage is left on the bean), and this can give it an increased range of fruited notes. Honey processed coffees come on a spectrum (white, yellow, red, black honey) which denotes how much mucilage was left on the bean, with black having the most.

Green Cost: $9.00/lb
Importer: Osito

Our "Green Cost" represents the cost of the raw coffee as well as associated transportation costs of shipping from warehouse to our roastery. As a small roaster, this allows us to provide a consistent calculation of our most important expense, given that other costs (e.g. packaging, labor, roast profiling R&D, quality control etc.) can vary significantly. We hope to be able to provide even more detailed cost breakdowns soon.