SUMATRA - SINGLE ORIGIN - MICROLOT
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We are ecstatic to have received a Silver Medal in the Espresso Category for this offering at the Golden Bean World Series 2024 -The World’s Largest Coffee Roasting Competition! A huge testament to our roasting methodology and product quality.
This is the Cream of the Crop! A top pick out of everything we have at the moment. The coffee from Asman Gayo is the best Sumatran coffee our importer has ever tasted.
We have a selected this naturally processed, vibrant Microlot for you to enjoy with a point of difference.
It has vanilla and cooked passion fruit notes with mild caramel and jammy red wine notes. These flavours combined produce a clean fruit-like sweetness and winey acidity. It's complex, balanced and delicious however you like your coffee.
This offering comes from a small mill in the Pegasing district of Takengon, in Sumatra's coffee-famous Aceh region ran by Cup of Excellence winner Asman Arianto. The Asman Gayo mill serves several small coffee producers within the Pantan Musara villages. Several years ago, these producers were dislocated from their homes and land because of a natural disaster, and they have rebuilt their lives and farms with a new focus on coffee.
Aceh, in northern Sumatra, is an incredible region for coffee production. The average farm is one hectare, 80% of producers within northern Sumatra are women, and 95% of producers are smallholders. The region is diverse, geographically speaking. It is surrounded by beaches with a swampy inland, and the Barisan Mountains make up the inner two-thirds of the area. Coffee is grown on this volcanic mountain amongst the rainforest. One of the notable features of this area is Lake Taboa, the largest volcanic lake in the world.
