Timor-Leste Kailitlau washed process

TIP: You can save products to your favorites list if you log in The relatively new Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, formerly known as East Timor, sits at the far eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago, and less than 700 miles from Northern Australia. It has had a long and turbulent history between many colonizations and occupations, and while stable economically has been especially, given its geographic isolation, quite challenged thru
the Covid pandemic. Smallholder coffee farmers also face vast agrarian vulnerabilities like arid weather, a short rainy season, poor soil, and negligible access to fertilizers and pesticides. Shrubs under such conditions are very low-yielding (averaging 2-3 kg. of cherry per tree). But not all is bleak: in recent years, through governmental and NGO support and significant
investment in infrastructure, the coffee sector has become a bright spot with continued efforts will present some of the most interesting and reliable sources in Indonesia.
The Kailitlau Mountain area within landlocked Ermera municipality is clustered with farms mostly belonging to the ethnic Dukurai peoples and coffee is a visible and important crop. Four farmer groups (Lekisala, Taurema, Hatlala and Loiludo),
representing a total of 73 households, were responsible for this individual high elevation coffee lot, which is from fully washed process
after a prolonged, 36-hour fermentation stage.
It is a lovely, clean cup with a range of fruit and earthy notes associated with washed coffees from Indonesian powerhouses
like Java and Papua New Guinea. It handles darker roast profiles quite well and is a nuanced single origin espresso.