The plantation
Where the bean is actually made
Start on a working Robusta estate — this one. Shade trees, pepper on the trunks, how cherries set and ripen, why altitude and canopy change what ends up in the cup. Mathew walks it with you.
Signature experience
Explore the coffee value chain.
Most estate stays show you a plantation. This one follows the bean the whole way — from the cherry on the branch to a sack leaving Wayanad for a buyer overseas.
- Where
- Wayanad, Kerala
- Stages
- Six, bean to export
- Starts
- On our own estate
- Arranged
- Driver and access included
The drying yard
Parchment, and the first place quality is won or lost
Small-scale drying yards and parchment units nearby. Pulping, fermentation, sun-drying on the kappikkalam, moisture targets — the unglamorous stage that decides how the lot will grade.
The grading floor
Sorting, sizing, and what a defect costs
A medium-scale segregation unit. Screen sizes, density tables, hand-picking against defect counts, and how a single lot splits into grades that fetch very different prices.
The Coffee Board
The institutional layer most visitors never see
The Coffee Board of India's Wayanad office — extension work, research, grower registration, auctions and price discovery. Context for why the region's coffee moves the way it does.
Roasteries & cafés
Where the region finally tastes its own crop
Wayanad roasteries and speciality cafés — roast profiles, cupping, and the recent shift from commodity Robusta toward speciality lots with an identity attached.
Branding & export
Wayanad to the world
A company that brands and exports out of Wayanad: certification, traceability, contracts, logistics — how a sack from the drying yard you stood on reaches a buyer overseas.
Who it suits. Anyone in the coffee trade, speciality-cafe people, students of agriculture or supply chains — and curious guests who want to understand what they are drinking.
Duration and route flex with how long you have and what is running that week: harvest, drying and grading are seasonal, so the same stops look different in December than in May. Tell us your dates and we will tell you honestly what will be active.
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