Kalle Natural

Origin

• 🇮🇳 India

Tasting notes

Character

• Comforting
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• Funky
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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 originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. 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 processNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. 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 juicyAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it. 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 varietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process. 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 coffeeGreen coffeeUnroasted coffee seeds as they are traded and shipped. Roasters buy green and roast locally; 'green buying' is the sourcing side of the craft. 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-lotMicrolotA small, separately processed and traded parcel of coffee — often a single day's picking from one plot — kept apart because it's exceptional. Tasting Pair as well as part of our Kalledevarapura Micro-lot Sampler and Kalle Q