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The name
Gehrai (गहराई) is Hindi for depth: what lies beneath a surface description. A tasting note is that surface – a few words, written once, by someone whose palate is not yours. Underneath sit two things a tasting note cannot separate for you: what the product itself expresses, and what you perceive of it.
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How it came about
It began at a cupping table in India in 2022, the same table where Sacchai’s question started.
Tasting through the coffees side by side, two people at that table landed on different cups. Each was unmistakably right for the person who chose it. That two palates differ was not news. Watching it happen in one lineup, at one table, in the same few minutes, was. The question followed on its own: could that kind of match be found for anyone else?
Finding either coffee took a row of cups tasted against each other. Most people never get that comparison. They choose alone, from a bag and a few words on its label.
Coffee is where the question was asked. It is not what the question was about.
The wider question goes back further, to a greenhouse in 2020. The Company →
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Now
The current work is back at the cupping table: a careful record of how coffees actually express themselves, and of how differently the same cup lands with different people. Coffee is where the question is tested first.
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Next
Coffee is where the work starts, not where it stops. Gehrai is being developed toward a platform for matching people to what they are likely to enjoy, in any category where taste decides. Early conversations with prospective pilot partners are welcome.
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