Specialty coffee · Chikmagalur, India

Cultivated
with curiosity.

We are first-generation planters growing coffee with patience, scientific rigour, and a deep respect for the living landscape around us.

1,050–1,250metres above sea level
MalenaduWestern Ghats, Karnataka
Vishal and Manasa standing together outdoors
Vishal & ManasaGrower · Roaster · Processor

A sense of wonder

A quiet feeling when something beautiful stops you.

Vismaya (pronounced Vis-ma-ya) is a Kannada and Sanskrit word for wonder. It also carries a little of both our names: Vis-hal and Ma-nasa. Every flowering, every cherry, every fermentation, and every cup brings us back to that feeling.

From field to cup

One shared vision.
Two complementary obsessions.

The work begins long before harvest and continues well after the cherries leave the tree.

01

In the field

Soil health, thoughtful shade, resilient planting material, and cultivation decisions shaped by observation, not habit.

Manasa evaluating aroma outdoors at sunset
02

In the process

Fermentation trials, microbial cultures, careful drying, and sensory analysis turn curiosity into flavour.

03

In the cup

Every lot is a conversation between terroir, variety, harvest, processing, and the roaster who carries it forward.

A gaur moving through dense coffee-estate vegetation

Our estate

Where the monsoon brings the forest to life.

In the hills of Chikmagalur, coffee grows within a changing, breathing landscape of shade, rain, mist, streams, and wildlife. Farming here means paying close attention to every signal the season gives us.

Walk through the estate
Vishal and Manasa together at sunsetVishal and Manasa standing beneath a tree

The people behind the coffee

From courtrooms and clinics to cherries and fermentation tanks.

Vishal is a lawyer and coffee roaster who now spends his days understanding the field. Manasa is an ophthalmologist and SCA Sensory Skills Intermediate graduate fascinated by everything that happens after harvest.

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