Specialty Coffee – India ‘Red Honey’ Ratnagiri

The Hindi word ‘Ratnagiri’ translates literally to ‘Pearl Mountain’, a reference to the dense silver oak canopy which crowns this farm. Ratnagiri was established in 1920 and is owned and operated by Ashok Patre, having been passed down from Grandfather, to father to son. Ashok describes this coffee as follows:

“This is a red honey processed coffee and it comes from two blocks on our farm and is mainly the Cavery varietal. The coffee was depulped and allowed to have an aerobic fermentation and was slowly dried for 26 days on raised beds.”