Taiwan Taiwu Champagne Natural

Roasting March 17th, 2020. Size: 4 oz *please note: items in your cart will roast and ship together. Tasting Notes While typically a classic Island profile coffee similar to Kona and Jamaica Blue Mountain; Sweet and balanced and mild. Subjected to our champagne natural process and the flavor transforms in to a delightfully fruited cup. strawberry, milk chocolate and peach. Background Info * Direct Trade Nano-lot You probably didn't know Taiwan grows coffee. Actually they have a fairly long history of coffee cultivation there, but almost all of the coffee is consumed domestically. Typica trees were brought from Kona to Southern Taiwan more than 80 years ago while Taiwan was a colony of Japan. Plantations were established in the mountains of Pingtung and tended to by Indigenous Paiwan tribe farmers. Coffee production was abandoned for decades, but as Taiwan's café culture and coffee consumption grew over the past 2-3 decades, the old trees were used as parent material to establish new fa