Oolong tea tone, cane sugar sweetness, apricot, walnut
ZhuoWu Mountain Coffee Farm, selected as No. 1 in Taiwan’s first PCA (Private Collection Auction) in 2021, broke the record of the highest bid price per pound at the global auction at that time as well. As a result, Taiwanese specialty coffee became popular once again and garnered much attention on the global stage. According to Hsu Ting-Yeh, his family planted tea before. In 2000, he decided to start growing coffee. Currently, the varieties cultivated in the farm are SL34, purple leaf mutation of SL34, Yellow Bourbon, and Geisha.
Before PCA that bring ZhuoWu to the international market attention, the farm is already a constant award-winning farm in many competitions in Taiwan locally. That includes the 1st place in 2012 Best of Taiwan Coffee Competition.
Over the past 21 years, Hsu has collected a lot of coffee cultivation experience. He emphasizes that all lands have unique properties. For example, different mountains have different elevations, planting directions, and independent microclimates. Each element affects coffee flavor. Even if the same variety of SL-34 is planted at the same altitude from the north to the south of Alishan, the flavor will still be completely different. This is because of the power of nature, which creates differences in the growing environment, soil properties, etc. On top of that, different farm management methods also contribute to such dissimilarities.
- Origin: Taiwan
- Region: Alishan
- Farm: Zhouwu Coffee Farm 卓武山咖啡農場
- Producer: Hsu Ting-Yeh
- Altitude: 1100-1300m
- Cultivar: SL-34
- Processing: Washed
- Website: http://zhuowucafe.com/
- Sourcing: Blossom Valley Int’l, Tai Chung