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Elegant herbaceous aroma of Indonesian Mantenin Coffee in Lindong, Sumatra

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Lake Tawa is located in the mountains of Gayo, north of Aceh province in Sumatra, which straddles Indonesia on both sides of the year. The humid rainforest climate is rich in rainfall and fertile volcanic soil brings rich nutrients to coffee. However, due to the remote location and inconvenient transportation, it was not until 1924 that coffee was grown. Most local farmers use traditional shade and do not apply pesticides.

Lake Tawa is located in the mountains of Gayo, north of Aceh province in Sumatra, which straddles Indonesia on both sides of the year. The humid rainforest climate is rich in rainfall and fertile volcanic soil brings rich nutrients to coffee. However, due to the remote location and inconvenient transportation, it was not until 1924 that coffee was grown. Most of the local farmers adopt organic cultivation with traditional shade and no pesticides.

The local climate is humid, after preliminary washing and fermentation, after one or two days of exposure, although the moisture content of raw beans is still 30%, 50%, immediately peel off the seed shell and then continue to dry, in order to shorten the drying time of raw beans. After about 2 days of drying, the moisture content of raw coffee beans can be reduced to 12% Mel 13%. This unique semi-washing method in Indonesia is known locally as Giling Basah, also known as wet removal (wet-hulled) from Raminita's Aceh Gold TP, which is famous in the world for its top Mantenin product because it adheres to the strictest quality management of La Minita, and the company sends people to Sumatra to provide technical guidance, from planting to treatment. And requires the full harvest of ripe fruit.

This coffee bean is handled by the Volkopi processing plant located in the Aceh area (Blue Batak is also the product handled by the treatment plant), so the treatment is the best, mainly washed in the front and sun in the back, plus TP:Triple pick means that it has been hand-selected for three times. So the bean appearance is very clean, and it is really a very valuable product.

Before the default baking degree is the second explosion, it has a little elegant herbal aroma of traditional boutique Mantenin, unique, clean and charming aroma of sweet peaches and preserved apricots, without astringency.

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There is no need to mention the quality of the old Aged Mandheling, which is also from the Raminita Group.

The aged Mantenin is a kind of distinctive characteristic produced by the special and complex treatment of the fresh Mantenin of that year and the special preservation way of more than 5 years. Like Gold Manning, its annual output is limited, and the yield of aged beans is smaller because of the difficulty and complexity of processing and preservation.

This Chen Man has the cool feeling of mint, a hint of vanilla, the sweetness of herbal tea, complex spices and a strong and mellow flavor. Dry aromas have flavours of grain, malt and wood; wet aromas are dark aromas of roasted caramel and pine, with a hint of earth after rain. The palate is intense and exciting on the palate, with lilac, woody aromas and strong and persistent mint.

Like a cool sea breeze sweeping between the lips and teeth

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