Nepal Illam Natural

Origin

• 🇳🇵 Nepal

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

Coffee from Illam is grown on steep hillside farms by smallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. producers, where coffee is often cultivated alongside tea, cardamom, and subsistence crops rather than on large estates. Introduced only in the mid-20th century, Nepal remains a tiny, emerging coffee origin focused more on quality than scale. We partnered with passionate producers to bring you this distinctive lot, processed as a 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. and enhanced with an anaerobicAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. environment.