Papua New Guinea - Iloko Village
$12.95
FROM THE GEEK FILE
- COUNTRY: Papua New Guinea
- REGION: Finisterre Mountains, Morobe District
- GRADE: Prime, specialty
- PROCESS: Semi-washed
- VARIETY: Blue Mountain, Typica
- ALTITUDE: 6000 Feet+
- SOIL/TERRAIN: Rich, Volcanic
- CUPPING NOTES: Balanced, medium intensity, floral, thick body, medium acidity
- CHARACTERISTIC AND QUALITY: Naturally organic, shade grown, village garden coffee
A beautiful example of the blue mountain variety, cultivated in village garden plots in the isolated village of Iloko in the remote Finisterre mountains of North Eastern Papua New Guinea, inaccessible by road. The extraordinary rich volcanic soil combined with the intense care taken with this coffee creates a triumph for village garden coffee, the pinnacle of what is possible in small plot farming.
