Lot 01 · Classic
Budan
For the hills that carried the first seed
The original Chikkamagaluru cup, rooted in the legacy the range is named for.
Budan is the reference lot. It is named for the hills that carried the first seed into these ranges, and it is the cup every other expression here is read against.
Nothing about it is trying to be unusual. It is the estate speaking plainly: shade-grown at 1400 metres, picked by hand, washed and dried slow, roasted until the origin is still audible and stopped there.
Available as
Ground
Milled to order for filter and press
Whole bean
Rested nine days, sealed with the valve on
Chicory blend
Roasted chicory folded in for the South Indian cup
The estate
- Estate
- Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka
- Coordinates
- 13.419172° N, 75.755971° E
- Elevation
- 1400 m
- Soil
- Volcanic loam
- Rainfall
- 2200 mm
- Shade canopy
- 62%, silver oak and rosewood
- Harvest
- December to February
- Picking
- Hand-picked at 90% ripeness
In the cup
- Process
- Washed, fermented 36 hrs
- Drying
- Raised beds, to 11% moisture
- Roast
- 17 min, first crack at 196°C
- Roast level
- Dropped short of second crack
- Rest
- 9 days minimum before it ships
Nothing is added because nothing needs to be. The sweetness at 1400 metres was grown into the bean; it was never stirred in afterward.
