Coffee estate walk and cupping
Chikkamagalurueasyabout 3 hoursGuide required
Two hours under the shade trees learning how arabica and robusta are grown here, then the same estate's coffee tasted side by side.
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Photos: Anand Osuri, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · L. Shyamal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this
Chikkamagaluru coffee is grown under a canopy of native trees rather than in the open, and the walk is as much about that forest as about the coffee: pepper vines on the silver oaks, cardamom in the wet gullies, the birds that the shade brings in. The planter or manager explains the year — blossom, cherry, harvest, drying — and then you sit down to cup the estate's own washed and natural lots against each other. Year-round; the estate looks different every season.
Where it starts
The estate, by arrangement
Nobody is leading this yet
Guide required. You cannot do this one on your own. A working estate is private land; the planter or manager walks you round it.
No guide on MaladTrip has listed this one yet, so it cannot be booked here. Since this one cannot be done without a guide, arrange one locally before you set out. We have described it anyway: it is worth doing, and we would rather tell you it exists than pretend it does not.
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