Surprise package...
One of the folks on the Roast.World forum is located in India. He and 2 friends have joined forces to develop a coffee growing region in (wait for it...) Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. Here's their web site: Back in perhaps February was their first harvest. And it was seriously hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the really high areas they had high hopes for couldn't be harvested. On top of that the areas that they were able to harvest weren't processed as planned as new equipment they had ordered was never delivered. So they did processing by hand in small batches and were forced to use a mortar and pestle to remove the parchment... an all-hand operation. I asked about buying a sample of Darjeeling Altura's first harvest but Vikash said "I wouldn't even know how to ship a commercial order out of the country right now". Instead he offered a $0 sample which arrived right about the time I had to repair the roaster. After much fussing around I finall...