INDIA MYSORE NUGGETS (Extra Bold): dried fruit, baking spice, marshmallow, sweet bread pastry.

DESCRIPTION: Mysore coffees are the best-known and most popular of all Indian coffees; they possess good body and snappy acidity. The overall taste profile is very unique, with spicy overtones. These spicy overtones come from the cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, and pepper that grow alongside the coffee trees.

India Mysore Nuggets Extra Bold is sourced from several family-owned farms from the Chikmagalur District in Karnataka, India. Many of the farms have been in operation for close to one hundred years, passed down through the family from one generation to the next. Our Mysore Extra Bold is a fully washed coffee cultivated above 1,200 meters.

This lot is full-bodied, with a rich, full taste and moderate acidity. Very interesting and exotic.

TASTING NOTES: The aroma is nutty, woody, and slightly smoky. Many of the notes in the aroma come through in the flavor, like walnuts and some smoke. There’s dark fruit, oak, licorice, and some vanilla spice, like a good dry red wine. The finish has a subdued brightness to it with just hints of lemon zest at lighter roast points. The body is medium to full, depending on roast and brew. There’s a reason people keep coming back to this bean. It’s a smooth, all-around great, stronger cup of coffee.

...Regional Details: If you think coffee from India sounds uncommon, wait until you hear about the Western Ghats mountain range, where this coffee was cultivated.  It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most biologically diverse places in the world, with more than 5,000 species of flowering plants and 508 different species of birds.  The Neelakurinji flower is so uncommon that it only blooms every twelve years.  And the legends say that the Western Ghats mountain range is the location where the first cultivated coffee in India arrived, from seven raw beans brought from Mocha by a Sufi saint on a pilgrimage to Mecca in the 17th century.

Sourcing Details This lot comes from an estate in the Somwarpet region, which has 330 acres cultivated with coffee, oranges, and peppers.  The estate has its own mill where coffee cherries are sorted, depulped, fermented, washed and then dried on patios.