Sulawesi Toraja, Indonesia

Tana Toraja, in the rugged central highlands of Sulawesi, produces coffee between roughly 1,100 and 1,900 metres in a region as renowned for its dramatic cliffside burial traditions and tongkonan houses as for its coffee. Like Sumatra, much Toraja coffee is wet-hulled, giving a full, syrupy body and low acidity, but the higher, cooler terrain tends to yield a cleaner cup with dark chocolate, warm spice, herbal notes, and a long finish. Grown largely by smallholders cultivating Typica-descended landraces and S795, Toraja is one of the more refined expressions of the classic heavy-bodied Indonesian profile.

At a glance

• Altitude: 1100–1900 masl
• Typical varieties: Typica, S795, Catimor
• Common processes: Wet-hulled (Giling Basah), Washed
• Harvest: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Climate

Cool, wet equatorial highland climate driving wet-hulled processing.

Soil & terroir

Fertile mountain soils in the central Sulawesi highlands.