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06 · The Seven Seeds

Read this against cup two.

Lot

22:22 · AUH · 2027 · 06

The house's method

Pour-over · ground medium-fine just before · water at 90°C · 1:16

Origin

Pearl Mountain Lot RM 59, Ratnagiri Estate, Chikmagalur, India

Producer

Ashok Patre

Variety · process

Catuaí · CM Intenso natural

House score

88–89

Notes

Purple grapes · black plum · caramelised dates · chocolate

By tradition — and the house says by tradition — around 1670 a pilgrim named Baba Budan carried seven coffee seeds out of Mokha and planted them in the hills of southern India that still carry his name. What is documented is that Indian coffee was established by the late 1600s, that the Dutch took plants from there to Java, and that from one Java plant in Amsterdam in 1706 came the line that crossed the Atlantic. Now read the notes: Caramelised dates, the same words printed on the second card. Three and a half centuries, eleven thousand kilometres, and it came home tasting like where it started.