Ratnagiri Estate – Robusta Thermal Shock 27.8

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What happens when Robusta gets the kind of processing ambition usually reserved for exceptional Arabica? Ashok Patre’s Thermal Shock 27.8 offers a compelling answer. It began with remarkably ripe CxR cherries—the 27.8 marking their Brix reading at harvest—and took that natural concentration of sugars into a tightly controlled combination of cultured carbonic maceration and thermal shock. The approach pushes Robusta away from familiar territory. Rather than amplifying bitterness or brute intensity, the processing reveals a more composed expression: rich and powerful, certainly, but also…