Sumatra Pantan Musara

Origin

• 🇮🇩 Indonesia· Aceh

Tasting notes

Bright, creamy sweetness, and a bold tea-like finish gives the Pantan Musara the classic Sumatran coffee experience. The tang of candied lemon wakes your senses before the rich, buttery, cooked sugars of caramel take over. This intense candy combination settles into a robust, malty black tea finish. The Pantan Musara is perfect for anyone familiar with delicate washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. coffees or looking for a little varietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process. in their morning cup. The Pantan Musara washed comes to us from a small mill found in the Pegasing district of Takengon, in Sumatra’s coffee-famous Aceh region. The mill is run by Cup of ExcellenceCup of Excellence (COE)A national competition and auction that identifies a country's best lots each year; winning 'COE' lots command dramatic price premiums. winner Asman Arianto where he produces both washed and naturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. coffees. Due to the humid climate and cloud cover commonly found over the island, washed coffees are rarely produced. This led to the development of the wet-hulledWet-hulledIndonesian method (giling basah) where parchment is stripped while the seed is still wet, then dried bare. Gives the earthy, spicy, heavy-bodied profile classic to Sumatra. process, locally known as Giling Basah, allowing coffees to dry much faster by removing the parchment layer while the beans are still in a high-moisture state. This unique style of processing is largely responsible for Sumatran coffees’ unmistakable flavor characteristics as well as their abnormally greenish-blue hue.