From our friends at Café Imports:

“This coffee 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. Unlike the vast majority of other Sumatran coffee receiving and processing centers, this mill is producing Washed coffees, as well as Naturals.

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.”

This cup is COMPLEX and to be honest, not for those that enjoy straightforward profiles. The natural process of this coffee really pushes the flavor profile to the very edges of what I personally enjoy but never really crosses over, hence our offering it to you. A very aromatic cup jumps out at you with cedar and cooked cranberry on the nose which then turns into this beautiful blueberry and dark chocolate taste in the cup that finishes with just the slightest candied sage. The tasting notes from our team kept going with chocolate covered raspberries, yellow delicious, chamomile, honey…it started to feel like a good piece of art; you can find almost anything in it if you are looking for it.

Let us know what you are “seeing” in this cup.

Enjoy!