Papua New Guinea Par Avion

TIP: You can save products to your favorites list if you log in Papua New Guinea, remote outpost of legends, intrigues us in its history and coffee. This is our first coffee from the very remote, relatively inaccessible Simbai region, a jungly, mountainous area bordering the Western Highlands and Sepik Provinces. Coffee is a vital export to the nearly 4000 smallholder farmer who contribute to what we're calling “Par Avion”. Simply stated, these farmers must bring their parchment coffee to a far-away airstrip, where it is weighed, recorded and stored in sheds until a sufficient amount will be jetted away in a cargo plane to Mt. Hagen for final processing and shipment around the world.
Washed process/sun drying still predominates in PNG, unlike a lot of Indonesian region coffee. Typica varietals predominate and farm elevations range from 1600-1900 meters. While we like the light-medium roast as single origin espresso, drip methops show it off more…creamy body, spiky sweet notes of melon, dried apricot, caramel and macha.