Coorg originally called as KODAGU is a small picturesque district of Karnataka, and is located in the Western Ghats. The name Kodagu originated from "Kodinalenad" which means "dense forest land on steep hills". Coorg is situated on the Karnataka - Kerala border, it is bound on the north by the Hassan, on the east by the Mysore and on the west by the Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka. On the South, it is separated from the Cannanore district of Kerala by the Brahmagiri range of hills.

That's the name given to Coorg. Lush, green valleys, plantations loaded with green coffee plants sprouting red berries, teak wood forests & majestic mountain ranges introduce you to nature's Coffee blossoms fill the air with an exhilarating fragrance in March-April. During May the cool and pure waters of the Kaveri are ideal for bathing at Dubare forest or Nisarga Dhama or for enjoying a dip near Iruppu or Abbi Falls. With the onset of the monsoons in June, everything becomes lush and green again. The glory of all the seasonal waterfalls and the Kaveri flowing in all her majesty can best be seen during July - September. The Dusheera festival and Kaveri Sankramana herald the beginning of the regular tourist season in Kodagu. The best time to visit is just after the rains, from August to early February.

Coorg enjoys a moderate climate; winters are pleasantly cool (15-20 Celsius) and summers only slightly hot (25-35 Celsius). During the monsoons the district receives heavy rainfall as it is in the catchment's area of river Kaveri. During this season the weather is cool, humid and wet.

This place is most famous for the coffee grown here. Coorg also grows copious amounts of cardamom, pepper, rice, ginger, oranges and many other cash crops albeit in lesser quantities. Recently, floriculture has caught on in a big way and the products froKarnataka Mapm Coorg have already achieved recognition as being among the best!

Besides coffee, the other potential inter-plantation crops are cardamom, pepper, oranges & cocoa. A variety of trees like rosewood, teakwood, silver oak, firewood etc., are grown along with coffee. Coffee needs lots of rainfall, altitude, steep terrain etc. to flourish. All these conditions are satisfied in Coorg and coffee grows naturally here. Karnataka state is the largest exporter of coffee in India and Coorg contributes to 80% of Karnataka's coffee exports.

The following is an Excerpt from Hilton Brown's article "The Astonishing Land Of Coorg". The article was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in the November of 1922. Hilton Brown was the District Magistrate in Coorg district in the 1920's. His views on Coorg hold good even today.

I have called Coorg an astonishing land; so it is astonishing in the respect that, being considerably smaller than Aberdeen shire, it is ranked as a fully and separately constituted province in a country where mere districts run to half the size of Scotland. That fact, in itself, should lead one to expectations. But it is astonishing in many ways and, principally because, being situated in the heart of the South Indian Peninsula, it contrives to be what it is. As a solitary island somewhere in the South Seas, it would at least be credible; wedged in between Tellicherry and Hunsur, it is scarcely that.

We could solace ourselves with the water meadows of Fraserpet, or climb to the windswept gHalebidrass plateau of the Brahmagiri's, where the sambhar walk in open solitude; and in the end descend into Malabar by the Saratabbi falls, which are four hundred feet high, and the great gorge of the Barapole River which must surely be as fine a piece of scenery on the grand scale as there is on Earth. And I hope that, on the way, we should foregather with a planter or two and share their sport; or again we should come to a Coorg house nestling among the Coconuts and Areca (beetle nuts) palms on the edge of the green valley of rice, and there we should be invited to take off our shoes and come inside and seat ourselves near the Southwest pillars of the inner court (which is a place of honor), and partake of that different hospitability which is all friendliness and neither self-interest nor ostentation. I know I should enjoy every minute of it, and venture to predict that so would you.

Whether you call Indian coffee as South Indian coffee, Madras coffee, Mysore coffee, Malabar coffee or Coorg coffee, Café Coorg strives to bring you the very best from the heart of the Indian coffee growing region.