New Indian coffee brands
Coffee grown in the shade of fruit trees on steamy southern Indian hills is starting to win recognition reserved until now for India”s most successful gourmet brand. The giant Asian nation is known better for its leafy tea estates than for coffee plantations, but is one of the world”s largest exporters, shipping around 200,000 tonnes a year. India”s best known coffee, a quality arabica called Mysore Nuggets, has long dominated the country”s specialty exports with its large beans, sweet, spicy flavors and distinctive name
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. However, in the nine years since the country decentralized coffee exports, a burgeoning group of growers has sprung up who want a piece of the ever-growing gourmet coffee pie led by the world-wide fashion for Starbucks-like coffee houses. “There”s more to Indian coffee than Mysore Nuggets,” Sunalini Menon, one of India”s top coffee tasters, told Reuters this week at a coffee conference here in the Nicaraguan capital. New names such as Buttercup Bold, which is grown under fruit trees, Balanoor Bean and Meerthi Mountain are making inroads into the highly competitive world of gourmet coffee. India even manages to produce high quality coffee from robusta, a type of bean usually sneered at by connoisseurs who say it has too much caffeine and an inferior taste to arabica. “It is not one of those low grown robustas. It is high altitude, we grow it under shade and it is washed,” Menon said. In other countries, high altitude, shaded coffee farms are usually set aside for finer arabica beans. But with its carefully tended robustas India is able to sell to the top end of the Italian expresso market. Expresso roasters like to use robusta to create froth in the cup . Indians drink huge quantities of sweet milky tea, but coffee also has a long history there, with the first seven beans said to have been smuggled to the country wrapped to the belly of a 16th century Muslim saint. Traditionally drunk watery and sugar laden on long train journeys, coffee is now being sold to India”s booming young professional class in modern coffee houses.
