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Cupping Notes: dark chocolate, cedar, molasses 
 
Process: Fully washed, patio dried 
 
Altitude: 800 - 1,600 meters
 
Variety: Hibrido de Timor, Bourbon
 
Timor-Leste's coffee production accounts for under 0.2% of the global coffee trade; however, it remains in a unique and opportunistic position given its standing as the largest single-source organic coffee producer globally. 
 
In East Timor-Leste, where this coffee is produced, the Cooperativa Cafe Timor employs farmers from extremely small farms across the countryside who often oversee no more than a hectare of coffee-producing farmland.
 
The coffee crop in these high-altitude regions was originally planted by Portuguese colonists over 400 years ago, but has changed over time, creating a new hybrid varietal with cleaner cup characteristics.
 
The National Co-operative Business Association describes the emerging coffee as “one of the finest and most unique coffees in the world." This is largely a result of the fertile volcanic soils known as the ‘Hibrido de Timor’, where the coffee is grown. Additionally, Alf Kramer, a leading coffee expert has described Timor's coffee as “among the top 1% in quality and price worldwide."
 
The Hibrido de Timor, the Timorese hybrid coffee variant is the result of an unstructured cross between Coffea arabica(arabica coffee) and C. canephora (robusta coffee). This variant brings across the qualities of the two cultivated types of coffee, including the ability to grow in far less fertile soil. In doing so, the blend loses an amount of cup quality from the better-regarded and less strong type. Furthermore, creating a unique blend that can remain amongst the harsher conditions of Timor, and yet retain properties of coffee quality “among the best in the world”.