Coffee Fit for Royals
For 627 years, the Wadiyar dynasty has held an unbroken, documented lineage as rulers of Old Mysore. Few royal houses anywhere can say the same. Theirs was a court remembered for its patronage, a house that gave the region its music, its palaces, and its taste for things done properly.
The Gandaberunda is the royal emblem of Mysore: a bird of legend with two heads, said to possess strength beyond measure. One head watches what is; the other, what comes. The Wadiyars carried it on their standard for centuries. It now stands watch over every pack we seal.
Today the story continues with a Rajkumari of the Wadiyar dynasty, who brings her family's name to the coffee grown within their old territory. Berunda is her house's welcome, extended to your table: a cup once fit for a court, offered now to anyone who takes coffee seriously.
In the BR Hills of Karnataka, deep inside the old territory of Mysore, Arabica ripens slowly under forest shade. Mist settles in the mornings, the cherries take their time, and nothing here is hurried. Berunda is drawn from a single origin: no blending across estates, no rounding off. What the hill gives in a season is what reaches your cup.
One region grows 71% of India's coffee. This is it.
The cherries are washed clean of their fruit before the beans are dried, and the cup shows it: clear, bright, and precise, with the character of the bean itself leading. This is the honest, articulate side of BR Hills Arabica.
Here the beans dry with a layer of the cherry's sweetness still clinging to them, and the roast deepens it. Expect a rounder, softer cup: more body, a natural sweetness, and less of an edge. The gentler of the two, and the more generous.
Washed or Honey Roasted, drip bags or ground. Choose your cup, and the court will send it on.
Erstwhile Mysore royal family forays into specialty coffee, unveils Berunda Coffee
Coffee, in our family, was never just a drink — it connected generations. So Berunda Coffee is a continuation of something that began at our family table, long before I was born.
Rajkumari Jayapalashri Anil, Founder, House of Berunda
The Hindu — July 4, 2026 — Mini Tejaswi. Read the feature
Every order leaves the court under the sign of the Gandaberunda, packed and sent to doors in Bangalore and Mysore. Write to us, follow along, and be first to hear when we ride further.
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Sealed under the wings of the Gandaberunda.
BerundaThe court is being prepared
