Wild honey
Colonies settle on the shade trees on their own. We take a share, late, and leave the rest.
Nandipura & Indravally Estates — Chikmagalur, Karnataka
Five generations under the same canopy.
Arabica micro-lots and Robusta parchment, grown at 3,400 feet under indigenous shade — handpicked, gently washed, and traceable to the block they came from.
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The Estate
A plantation thathas neverchanged hands.
Nandipura and Indravally were planted in the early 1900s in the heart of Chikmagalur’s coffee belt — the district where coffee first took root in India. Five generations later, the same family still farms them.
The estates sit at 3,400 feet in the Western Ghats. Cool air and a long, slow ripening season do most of the work; we mostly try not to get in the way. Everything is handpicked, pulped the same day, and dried on the estate.
Today the estates are stewarded by Shricharan Jayaram, and hold Rainforest Alliance certification alongside membership of the Karnataka Planters’ Association.
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Estates
Misty mornings — Nandipura Estate, Mudigere
Under the canopy
Jackfruit. Ficus.Fig. Malabar plum.
Our coffee grows in the shade of indigenous trees, not in cleared rows. The canopy stabilises the soil, feeds it organic matter, absorbs the monsoon and holds the temperature down — which is what lets the cherry ripen slowly enough to be worth picking by hand.
It also means the estate is an ecosystem before it is a farm. Wildlife moves through it. Bees nest in it. Pepper vines climb the same trees that shelter the coffee.
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What we offer
Three ways to buythe harvest.
Green coffee, sold direct from the estate. Buyers in Europe already take our Robusta parchment.
01
Arabica Micro-Lots
Separated by block and by picking round, kept apart through pulping and drying. Small volumes, cup-scored before release — for roasters who want a lot they can name.
- Process
- Washed
- Volume
- Micro-lot
- Altitude
- 3,400 ft
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Robusta Parchment
Our awarded line, and the one already going to Europe. Blocks run from two years old to forty, S.274 among them. Pulped the day it is picked, gently washed, sun-dried on the estate. Export-ready in bulk.
- Process
- Washed
- Volume
- Bulk
- Award
- Certificate of Merit
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Cherry Bulk
Whole cherry dried in the sun with the fruit left on. Heavier in the cup, deeper and sweeter — built for blends and for espresso bases that need a spine.
- Process
- Natural
- Volume
- Bulk
- Crop
- Annual
From tree to sack
Six steps,none of themhurried.
Every batch is traceable to origin, so each roasting batch carries distinct single-origin characteristics.
01
Handpicked
Only ripe cherry leaves the tree. Pickers go through the same block several times across the season rather than stripping it once.
02
Pulped
Cherry is pulped the day it is picked, on a line built for twenty-five tonnes a day. Nothing waits overnight, so nothing ferments before we decide it should.
03
Gently washed
Washed slowly and without force. The aim is a clean bean, not a fast one — the flavour built on the tree is the flavour we want to keep.
04
Sun-dried
Dried on the estate, turned by hand, brought down to stable moisture at the pace the weather allows.
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Graded
Every batch goes through visual evaluation and cup tasting. Only the finest beans carry the estate's name forward.
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Traceable
Each lot stays tied to the ground it came from, so every roasting batch carries distinct single-origin character.
The living estate
Coffee is one cropon a workingecosystem.
Sustainability here means a balance between economic growth, social development and care for the environment — held over a century, on the same ground.
Black pepper
Vines climb the same shade trees that cover the coffee. Pepper thrives on virgin soil rich in humus.
Biodiversity
The estate is unfenced to wildlife. Gaur and elephants come through, and the irrigation was rebuilt around them. A healthy ecosystem is the growing method, not a by-product of it.
Robusta parchment, Europe bound
Verified
Certified, andaudited bypeople who visit.
Rainforest Alliance
Sustainable Agriculture Standard 2020, version 1.2
AtSource+
Verified sustainability programme
K.P.A. Member Estate
Karnataka Planters' Association
Certificate of Merit
Awarded for Robusta Parchment Bulk
Group certification held under Olam Food Ingredients India Pvt. Ltd. — Coffee Planters Association.
Cupped blind, by strangers
Third and fourthin the country,sight unseen.
Kenneth Davids and Chris Palmer cupped 15 Indian coffees blind for CoffeeReview.com — eight put forward by the Coffee Board of India, seven sourced by American roasters. Two of them were ours. They placed third and fourth.
Scored out of 100. Both reviews and the full tasting report are still published by CoffeeReview.com, linked above — the estate has been in the same family, on the same ground, ever since.
Enquiries
Tell us whatyou're looking for.
We sell direct from the estate to roasters, importers and traders. Tell us the profile and the volume, and we’ll come back with what we have on the current crop.
Nandipura & Indravally Estates
Mudigere, Chikmagalur District
Karnataka 577132, India