India | Ratnagiri Estate | Ashok Patre | Catuai, Cauvery & SLN 9 Natural
Product details
| Management number | 253652567 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$12.40 | Model Number | 253652567 | ||
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Ashok Patre - Ratnagiri Estate
Ratnagiri Estate was founded in 1927 by Patre K. Shivappaiya and harvested its first crop in 1934. Third-generation owner Ashok Patre took over in 1989 and turned the farm into one of India's leading specialty estates, introducing five to six rounds of selective picking, intensive sorting and an on-site processing lab that now runs more than a dozen distinct fermentation and drying protocols.
The estate is Rainforest Alliance certified and farmed with an ecology-first approach: a three-tier shade canopy of silver oak, intercropped pepper, biological pest control and an eco-pulper that cuts water use dramatically. 'Ratnagiri' means 'Pearl Mountains' - a nod to the silver hue the oaks give the hillsides.
Region
The estate sits in the Bababudangiri hills of Chikmagalur, Karnataka - the birthplace of Indian coffee - in the Western Ghats at roughly 1,200-1,500 metres, bordering a tiger reserve with remarkable biodiversity. Cool nights, heavy monsoon rains and deep forest soils give slow cherry maturation and dense, sweet beans.
About this Natural Microlot
For this natural microlot, ripe cherries are dried whole on raised beds in ventilated greenhouses, letting the fruit's sugars soak into the seed. Cofi-Com cupped it at 86 - the highest score in this shipment - with bittersweet chocolate, blueberry, plum, prune, dates and grapefruit.
Ratnagiri is planted mainly to Catuai along with Indian-bred selections such as Cauvery and SLN 9. These compact, high-yielding varieties suit the estate's dense shade-grown system, and in careful natural processing they deliver jammy dark fruit over a chocolate base - which is exactly what we taste here. We roast it for filter to keep the blueberry front and centre.
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