We are on a mission to put
Indian coffee on the world map
The introduction of coffee to India is a tale befitting the intriguing brew.
Legend has it that Baba Budan, a Sufi saint of 16th century India, tasted the liquid brew during one of his visits to Arabia. So smitten was he that he decided to smuggle seven coffee seeds back to his homeland, at great personal risk. He planted them in his courtyard located in a small scenic village, which later became the iconic birthplace of coffee in India – Chikmagalur.
Baba Budan Giri, or the Crescent Mountain, in the Western Ghats is the hillscape that honors the Sufi saint to date. In return, the coffee seeds took to the mountains as only hardy plants do, and today, this region produces fine Arabica and Robusta varieties.
Kelachandra Coffee is proud to be part of this time-honoured tradition and we are pioneers of shade-grown coffee, paying close attention to every detail, and brewing you some magic with every bean
Our Coffee Varieties
An overview of our heirloom variety coffee products
Arabica Varieties
The Arabica variants from Kelachandra Coffee Estates highlight the distinctive intrinsic taste profile of the beans. We offer high-quality Arabica products that have been cultivated and processed by adhering to scientific cultivation practices.
Robusta Varieties
Kelachandra Coffee’s select high-quality cultivars from the pristine hills of Chikmaglur and valleys of Wayanad offer you some of the best handpicked, sun-dried washed, caffeine-rich and flavourful Robusta beans from India.
Other Products
Pepper
Native to the southern region of the Indian subcontinent, peppercorns are grown as vines on our shade trees alongside our coffee. Our lush estates produce some of the most superbly flavoured peppercorns in India.
Cardamom
As one of the oldest known spices in the world, cardamom is one of the most significant crops within our estates. Consisting of whole or ground dried fruits, or seeds, of Elettaria cardamomum, the seeds have a warm, slightly pungent, and highly aromatic flavour somewhat reminiscent of camphor.
Rubber
Our rubber is harvested mainly in the form of the latex from the rubber tree or others. The latex is a sticky, milky colloid drawn off by making incisions in the bark and collecting the fluid in vessels in a process called “tapping”. The latex then is refined into rubber that is ready for commercial processing.
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