Single-origin coffee grown on volcanic highland ridges and tended by smallholder families, now roasted and poured in Kolkata.
Beyond the valleys of Goroka, Mt. Hagen and the Wahgi, small farms tend their gardens by hand.
Follow one cherry from the mountain to your cup.
The central cordillera forms isolated microclimates. Each province leaves a signature note in the cup.
Farmers walk their gardens again and again, choosing only the deep red cherries.
Between April and September, smallholder farming families walk their garden plots at daybreak. Commercial stripping is never permitted; only cherries ripened to deep, lustrous crimson are selected one by one.
Cherries from many small gardens are collected, weighed and brought down the mountain the same day.
The skin comes off, the fruit sugars ferment away, and clean water leaves pale beans in parchment.
Raked by hand on raised beds until the beans are firm, pale green and ready to export.
Heat turns green beans brown and releases the aroma.
Steam carries the first hint of sweetness.
A clean, bright cup with a soft, spiced finish.
Cherries are picked, pulped and dried by the families who grow them.
Green coffee travels down from the ranges to PNG’s port on the Huon Gulf.
Roasted fresh and poured in the city, an authentic international coffee culture.
Papua New Guinea’s finest coffee, now in Kolkata. Come and taste the highlands.
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