Chikmagalur

Chikkamagaluru district sits on Karnataka's western edge, where the Deccan plateau drops into the Western Ghats. Coffee is concentrated in the Malnad taluks along that break — Mudigere, Koppa, Sringeri, Narasimharajapura and western Chikkamagaluru — with the high ground, the Baba Budan range and Mullayanagiri at 1,930 m, sitting above the estates rather than under coffee itself. Estates occupy the slopes and valleys roughly 700–1,500 m, arabica in the 1,000–1,500 m band, robusta in the warmer pockets below.

Chikmagalur arabica reads as a cocoa-and-nut coffee with soft acidity, medium to heavy body and a long sweet finish. Fragmentation shapes the supply too: small growers vastly outnumber the old large estates, which is why the district produces both anonymous bulk coffee sold by grade and named single-estate lots with the processing on the label — both off the same slopes.