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Sulawesi Toraja, Indonesia
Indonesia growing region
Key facts
- Location
- Central highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Altitude
- 1,100 to 1,900 metres
- Main Varieties
- Typica-descended landraces, S795, Catimor
- Processing
- Wet-hulled and washed
- Flavor Profile
- Dark chocolate, warm spice, herbal notes, long finish
- Body
- Full and syrupy with low acidity
- Beans we stock
- 25 from 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.
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