Emerging Asian specialty coffees have a special place at Climpson & Sons and adding high quality Indian coffees to our menu has been on the wishlist for many years. Working closely with our import partners at Indochina Coffee we are excited to offer this unique lot from the Baba Budan Giri hills.

Baba Budan Giri is a mountain range in the South West region of Karnataka. This coffee is grown by MG Plantation, a longstanding family business that has largely grown commercial coffee for the local market. Working with Ekata Coffee, an organic focused local start-up, they have identified small areas of this large estate to move towards specialty production with more selective picking and processing.

Growing coffee varieties uniquely developed in India, Ekata have seen the potential in this area with large indigenous trees providing shade and biodiversity while a natural spring provides clean water. The team are now focusing on establishing organic growing practices across the entire plantation and, in the long term, would like to convert all coffee production in the region. Not only will sustainable agroforestry be crucial to stabilising the local area to climate events but the improved quality of their coffee is also bringing significantly better prices to local producers.