The Coorg Collective

About The Coorg Collective

The ripe pods are handpicked when they are 9 - 10 months old and are still green in colour. If they are picked too soon, the vanillin content and quality of the bean will be lower. If they are left on the vine too long, they will become over-ripe and split on the vine. Post-harvest, the best scores of vanilla beans are carefully sorted and then cured by means of an indigenously developed processing method developed by the farmer. The beans are blanched, sweated, and sun dried over a period of weeks until they turn moist, dark-brown and wrinkled. They are then conditioned for months to bring out the rich aroma and flavour in the pods which are then crafted into extracts and powders which completed the art of vanilla bean cultivation. The Coorg Collective is a clean, conscious, community