Christmas coffee is back and as good as ever, iv chosen the same origin as previous years, partially due to its popularity but also because i personally love it and get to drink it myself! This is a single estate coffee produced by Korra and Anita Venkatrao in Gurra Garuvu, Araku, India. These coffee always provide festive style taste notes such as  heavy cream, rum, caramel & spices.
 
Origin: Gurra Garuvu, India
Region: Andhra Pradesh
Producer:  Korra and Anita Venkat Rao
Varieties: Selection 9 (Sln9)
Processes: Natural
 
From the impporter
 
In the village of Gurra Garuvu, nestled at a lofty altitude of over 1200 masl lies a coffee farm that exudes a charm of its own. Enterprising Korra Venkat Rao and Anita’s farm is replete with towering teak and silver oak trees that act as primary shade, while mango, papaya and eight other varieties offer secondary shade. This humble and hardworking couple have put their faith in Naandi to tell their story but for Naandi, it is their coffee that tells the real story!
 
Cherries are picked from under the multi layered shade canopy when a deep crimson red. A hand sorting is done first, before delivering still in the flesh to the collection truck that quickly takes the cherry to the centralised processing unit. There the beans are cleaned and floated, and the brix reading, a measure of the sugars in the cherry. is taken. To pass, they must be over 20 degrees. The ripe cherries are then dried for 15-25 days until the moisture is between 10% – 11.5% and suitable for export.