<p>Ruby port, madeira wine and nougat. Farmer: Prakashan Balaraman Farm: Riverdale Estate Region: Yercaud Country: India Processing: Natural (Champagne Yeast) Elevation: 1,450 - 1,700 masl Variety: SL9 and SL5B Sourced Through: Condesa Co.Lab --- Since 1920, Riverdale Estate has been a family owned business where three generations have worked to improve the quality of their coffee plants. The Farm is located in Eastern Ghat Mountains in Yercaud – South India. Prakashan Balaraman is a young and passionate coffee farmer who is challenging traditional coffee growing practices and processing in India. In the last 10 years Riverdale Estate has been transformed with new modern farming practices like a state of art cupping lab, energy efficient pulping station(wet mill), drip irrigation for the plants, African style raised beds to dry all our coffee and temperature controlled storage room to store coffee beans post harvest The plantation sits at an altitude of 1450 meter above sea level where we grow Green tip Gesha, brown tip Gesha, SL9 and SL5B arabica varieties. The Loam soil in these mountain ranges have a perfect mixture of clay, silt and sand to grow coffee and other crops like oranges, jackfruit & peppercorn. The estate has a natural water stream which flows throughout the year making it a very interesting place to cultivate coffee. Only selective ripe cherries are hand picked by their trained pickers at. Quality picking equals quality green beans and this is in their DNA! Training their hand picker team on an ongoing basis and having quality control measure is the key to ensure coffees are picked at the optimum ripeness for different process. Fruit development is a lengthly process understanding the maturation of the bean development on a weekly basis provides Riverdale Estate the roadmap, the work starts from early on the seed development of the endosperm – how the seeds store protein and sucrose within its walls. Coffee fruit ripen at different stages so RE's fi</p><p><strong>Origin:</strong> India</p><p><strong>Process:</strong> Natural</p><p><strong>Tasting Notes:</strong> Honey, Orange, Wine, Rose, Tea</p>
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