This coffee is grown and hand-processed by the indigenous community of Atok, seated at the highest elevation of the Cordillera Mountains in the Northern Philipipnes. This coffee has a special connection to NOCI as founder, Kellan Lyman lived with this community to support their marketing & development initiatives. With improved infrastructure that finally connects this region to the rest of the nation's development, we're delighted to present this coffee to be enjoyed by U.S. coffee lovers.
Tasting notes include walnut, orange & spice.
Packed in 12 oz. bags.
This lot is grown by a cooperative of 270+ smallholding farmers in the highest elevation in the Philippines. The local culture's practice is that each married couple must plant a coffee tree for a blessed life together, so coffee is really in their roots!
Region: Benguet, Cordillera Mountains
Varieties: Bourbon, Typica
Process: Washed
Elevation: 1400 - 1765 masl
Harvest: December - May
Flavor notes: Sweet orange, toasted nuts, cinnamon, berries
Social benefits: Supports indigenous, smallholding farmer cooperative
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Bourbon coffee varietals originated from Yemen and was transported to La Reunion by French missionaries in the early 1700s. For 150 years, bourbon was cultivated exclusively on this island in the Indian Ocean. In the mid-1800s, as colonial aspirations heightened, the plant made it's way to Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific. Caturra coffee varietal is a natural mutation of the Bourbon variety which was then breed in Brazil to select the best-performing plants and propogate their seeds in the early 1900s.