Rich pudding-like aromatics of brown sugar and sweet pastry, getting deeper on the break. Sweet, berry-like fruit coming through in the cup rounded out by a light honey flavour. Medium texture that is smooth and balanced out with a soft acidity. Overall a pleasant cup that is sweet and creamy.  Roasted long and slow to improve the rich/sweet nature of this coffee.
 
Cupping Score - 84.5
Processing method - Honey
Varietal - Catuai
Main flavour notes - Sweet | Citrus | Brown Spice
 
This honey-processed Arabica from Crystal Valley brings together the estate’s rocky terrain, its warm Coorg climate, and a slow, carefully managed drying stage. The cup is sweet and citrus-led, with a pomelo character lifted by gentle brown spice. That sweetness comes from the way the coffee is handled on the farm: fully ripe cherries picked by hand, depulped with the mucilage kept intact, and dried slowly on raised beds under a polyhouse for up to ten days. Holding that sticky layer allows the sugars to concentrate and develop a silky, rounded texture in the cup.