Cliff's Spice Zone | Single-Estate Yercaud Coffee & Spices, Shevaroy Hills, Est. 1956
Dawn over the Shevaroy Hills — mist in the valley and the estate road climbing through shade-grown coffee above Yercaud

Yercaud Coffee Estate · Shevaroy Hills, Tamil Nadu

One mountain. Every harvest. Since 1956.

Twelve hundred acres across the Shevaroy Hills, Yercaud, planted in storeys: Arabica at chest height, pepper overhead, cardamom at the knee, and hives in the shade between them. Picked, wet-milled, sun-dried and packed without once leaving the mountainside — most estates sell cherry at the gate and lose the story there.

1,200 acres

Rainforest Alliance certified

Shade-grown & intercropped

Why Cliff’s exists

Some flavours cannot be manufactured. They have to be grown.

Slowly, at altitude, under a standing roof of silver oak. On our mountainside in the Shevaroys, coffee blossoms open white after the first spring rain. Pepper vines take the long way up the silver oaks. Cardamom ripens in the shade between them.

We pick, wash and sun-dry every harvest right here, so that what reaches your kitchen still remembers the mountain. This is not a factory’s idea of flavour. It is a farm’s.

Pure by nature. Perfect by taste.

A keeper's hands holding freshly picked red and yellow coffee cherries on the estate

Harvest note

PULPED WITHIN 3–15 HOURS

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Rolling misty ridges falling away below the estate at first light

Explore our mountain

The hill does most of the work.

4,500 feet above sea level
Read the Shevaroy terroir in full

Our harvests

Many harvests, one canopy.

One acre carries four crops here because they are planted in storeys rather than fields — vine on the trunk, coffee at chest height, cardamom across the floor. Which is why almost no Indian brand can offer you the morning cup and the evening meal off the same soil.

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Not yet on the shelf

Cocoa, areca nut, avocado, hill banana.

Planted, watched, not yet promised. The range expands when the land does — never before.

How the canopy works

Estate through the seasons

The farm writes the calendar.

Four turns of the year decide what is picked, what is dried, and what the estate looks like when you arrive. If you are planning a coffee farm visit near Yercaud, the season you choose changes everything you will see.

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Sustainability & certifications

Care with receipts, not adjectives.

Nothing on this page is self-reported. An outside auditor walks the holding every year, the FSSAI licence number is printed in the footer, and the five records below are the ones we are actually held to.

INDEPENDENTLY AUDITED ANNUAL CYCLE · WHOLE HOLDING VERIFIED ON ESTATE

Every claim below is one an auditor can fail us on. None of them are ours to grade.

Estate record of practice

Five records

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Signed on estate · licences in footer

Read the full record

Signature experiences

The estate at working pace.

Nothing here is staged for visitors. You walk the rows that were picked that morning, with the person who picked them, and the tasting table comes after the work rather than instead of it.

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Estate honey, cardamom and peppercorns laid out in the packing store

Wholesale · White label · Export

One counterparty, seed to shipment.

You are buying from the people who planted it. No broker, no pooling with a neighbouring estate, no repacking in a third city — what leaves this gate is what arrives at yours.

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Asked often

The short answers.

Anything not here, message the estate on WhatsApp. A person answers, in person-hours.

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The gate is open. The kettle is already on.

Whichever door you take, it reaches a named person on the estate rather than a form queue. Visits, trade enquiries and questions are all answered from the hill the crop came off, usually within a working day.