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Pull the export records for “Sumatra Mandheling” over the last hundred years, and you are, in part, reading the trade history of a coffee that grew somewhere else. Much of it came from the Angkola and Sipirok highlands, walked north to be aggregated in Mandailing, and left the island under
In April 2016, a coffee from a forest on a West Java mountain walked into a competition in Atlanta and beat the field. Arabica Puntang is arabica grown on the slopes of Gunung Puntang, south of Bandung in West Java, at roughly 1,200 to 1,500 meters, and it is best
Some origins matter for how they taste. Timor matters for what it did to every other coffee. Timor coffee is arabica grown on Timor island, split between Indonesian West Timor in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and independent Timor-Leste to the east. The Indonesian side grows organic, smallholder
When someone calls coffee “a cup of Java,” this is roughly where the phrase was born. Java Malabar coffee is Arabica grown on the slopes of Mount Malabar, above Pangalengan in the West Java highlands, part of the historic Java Preanger region where the Dutch planted some of Indonesia’s first
If you have ever bought “Sulawesi Kalossi,” you have bought Enrekang coffee, whether the bag said so or not. Sulawesi Enrekang coffee is Arabica from Enrekang Regency in South Sulawesi, the highland region just south of Tana Toraja, and Kalosi is simply its historic trading town. Grown between about 1,200
Most Indonesian coffee grows on a volcano. This one does not. Papua Wamena coffee is arabica grown in the Baliem Valley, high in the Jayawijaya mountains of Papua, on some of the most remote farmland in the country, reachable historically only by air or on foot. It is grown between
