Caramel sweetness consolidates nicely with a flavor profile of Hershey’s chocolate bar and cocoa rice crispies, with mild green apple acidic impression. Versatile and balanced!
Lekisala is the name of the small community where this coffee is from. This past year the buying operation covered 30 farmers from this community, buying mostly fully washed, wet process coffees, but also whole coffee cherry as well. They are a part of the village Eaulo, and most of the coffee is situated in the valley separating the districts of Ermera and Aileu. Elevation spans a range of 1400 to 1800 meters above sea level.
Typical cultivars you see in this are are Timor Hybrid and Typica types, grown under natural shade of the local casuarina trees, which also act as a source of nitrogen for the coffee crops (what’s often referred to as a “nitrogen fixer”). The farms represented in these lots are typically very small, and processing tends to be a bit rustic in terms of the local made wooden machinery used to depulp coffee, and drying on tarps. But the flavors are anything but rustic, a testament to the level of scrutiny and quality control implemented during post harvest processing.
Timor Leste (East Timor) has become a fairly consistent source of balanced, clean coffees for us. In terms of flavors we taste, we think they slot in next to wet process Java and Sulawesi, all of which are sound alternatives to washed Central American coffees.
Coffee Spec:
- Origin: Timor-Leste
- Region: Suca Eraulo, Ermera District
- Producer: Lekisala community
- Altitude: 1400-1800m
- Cultivar: Timor Hybrid, Typica
- Processing: Washed (Wet Process)
- Sourcing: Sweet Maria’s