2026 · Edition One
The Living Atlas™
Every contour in this document belongs to one estate.
Kodagu (Coorg) · India
12.442132° N · 75.752910° E
Documented by the family that farms it.
This atlas records one hillside in Kodagu and the coffee grown on it. Every graphic in these pages is derived from the estate's own survey — the contours, the watercourses, the elevation masses. Nothing here is decorative in origin. Where a measurement has not been made, the field is left marked rather than filled.
Most brands invent a pattern. We surveyed one.
The identity is not a drawing of the estate; it is an extract from it. The sequence below runs from the raw contour survey to the mark that appears on every pack. Each step uses the same source data — nothing is redrawn by hand between them.
Contour interval
Major contours only
Elevation as field
Extracted, not drawn
One map, three seasons.
The same survey, rendered for the three states the estate actually occupies. Colour and watercourse weight carry the season; the geometry never changes.
Cloud on the ridge, streams at full weight, the hill deep green.
Clear air, laterite leading, the picking months.
Warmest ground, watercourses thin, the hill waiting.
Cut the mountain open.
Coffea canephora
The coffee that built this estate. Robusta is what these slopes do best, and we lead with it rather than apologising for it — grown high, in shade, picked late and roasted small.
Recorded · Subramanya Estate, 2026
Cultivation · shade-grown under canopy
Harvest · November – January
The leaf that names us
Venation and contour share a visual grammar — branching systems shaped by water, terrain and growth. Pattolé is the leaf; Kokalera is “of the leaf.”
Vein orders · not yet counted
Dimensions · measurement pending
Four days of white
Once a year, after the first rain, the whole hill flowers at once and smells of jasmine. Then it is over, and the fruit begins.
Flowering · triggered by first rain
Duration · approx. four days
Green, breaker, turning, ripe
Picked by hand, only at the last stage. A branch is visited more than once, because the hill does not ripen on a schedule.
Into the red earth
What holds the plant to this particular soil, and the soil to this particular hill. Below it, the rock — and the springs that feed both our gifts.
Soil series · lateritic, well drained
Rooting depth · not yet recorded
The working year.
The estate's calendar is set by rain, not by schedule. The sequence below is what happens; the dates shift each year.
What is measured, and what is not.
We publish only what we have measured, and we say who measured it. Figures attributed to a state agency are regional records for Karnangeri, not readings from our own instruments.
Subramanya Estate · Karnangeri · Kodagu