India Ratnagiri SW12

We try not to keep coffee on the shelves for long, so if we don't have a particular coffee in stock, we have to replenish the order after the roasting day. We roast on Tuesdays and Thursdays, pack the coffee and send it out on Wednesdays and Fridays.

There is an unparalleled history behind them. Ratnagiri's owners, Ashok and Divya Patre, have been committed to quality for years, producing excellent microlots. Coffee from India is often seen in the specialty world as uninteresting or ordinary. Mr and Mrs Patre have consistently proven that this need not be the case. They are investing significant resources in their coffee processing infrastructure. Their laboratory and washing station are cosmically impressive - to the eye, you could say it's NASA, not a coffee farm.

A friend of ours, Bydgoszcz-based Damian Durda, has been working with Ratnagiri for some time. Every year, he spends the crucial months of coffee fruit processing on the farm, constantly experimenting with processes. The aim is to achieve clean and transparent profiles, which he succeeds in doing without a hitch. You are currently drinking one of his microlots.