Another style of Indonesian Coffee introduction to the flavor of Kalosi Duraga coffee on Sulawesi Island

Karosi Duraga, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Production area: Indonesia Tana Toraja highland (southern part) / South Sulawesi

Planting altitude: about 1000 ~ 1600 m

Variety: Arabica

Type of soil: volcanic soil

Grading standard: G1

Treatment method: wet planing treatment

Harvesting method: manual harvesting

Average annual temperature / rainfall: 20 ℃ / about 1000 ~ 2000 mm

Flavor: sweetness and consistency taste a bit like tasting single malt whisky, close to the wet soil flavor of Sumatra Mantenin, with fresh grass aromas, creamy texture, smooth nutty, chocolate-like mellow and slightly floral aromas. the taste is quite rich and long-lasting, on the whole is mellow and sweet coffee.

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi, formerly known as Celebes, is the 11th largest island in the world by area, combining the cultures of many races. The name celebes means rapids, which originally meant that in 1511, a sailor was stranded here due to a severe storm and was named celebes. Today, because the area is rich in iron ore in its early days, it recombines the local language (Sula and Wesi) to change the place name! It is one of the famous coffee-rich islands in Indonesia, with unique natural conditions, and it has a long history of growing coffee. Like Java and Sumatra, it also belongs to volcanic topography, and there are still ten active volcanoes in the area. The Dutch began to grow coffee on the island in 1750, and because of the volcanic weakly acidic soil in the fertile tropical highlands, high-quality Arabica could be grown in Toraja, south of Sulawesi.

"Toraja" is not a place name, a city name, nor a variety name, but a procrastination, an ethnic group good at growing coffee in the central mountains of Sulawesi, and the name of the island's boutique beans. "Kalossi", a small town in the middle of the island, is a centralized trading place for Toraja coffee beans, because the yield is not much, so it has been defined as fine beans since Dutch times. Toraja farmers have a good sense of quality and will pick ripe coffee cherries to harvest, so the harvest season will be longer. Sulawesi Island is rich in iron ore and high in iron content in the soil, which creates this unique flavor of Toraja coffee.