TIMOR LESTE ORGANIC ERMERA LACAU

BROWN BUTTER, PEAR, RASPBERRY, GRAPE-MEDIUM ROAST GROWER:  9 PRODUCERS ORGANIZED AROUND CAFÉ BRISA SERENA VARIETY:  TIMOR HYBRID, TYPICA REGION:  DUCURAI VILLAGE, LETEFOHO SUB-DISTRICT, ERMERA MUNICIPALITY HARVEST:  JUNE-SEPTEMBER ALTITUDE:  1300-1500 METERS SOIL:  CLAY LOAM PROCESS:  FULLY WASHED AND DRIED ON RAISED BEDS CERTIFICATIONS:  ORGANIC   Timor-Leste, or East Timor, takes up the eastern half of the greater Timor island, part of the Indonesian archipelago and not far from the northern coast of Australia. It is a young republic with a long and chaotic political history, having only achieved full independence in 2002, after almost 500 years of consecutive occupations by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and Indonesia.Timor-Leste’s coffee is small in overall scale but highly significant to the Timorese, 25% of whom rely on coffee production for their livelihood. The island’s inland forests also happen to be historically significant, being the origin of coffee’s most adaptive genetic