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Yemen Mocha Sanani

A note about the photos from Yemen;  Look how rugged that landscape is.  Can you imagine picking coffee there.  Every bean is picked by hand.

Last photo shows a coffee ceremony using a Chemex pour over, got to love the 'modern' touch!!

 

Distinctive in both flavor and appearance, Arabian Mocha Sanani grows under harsh, primitive conditions in the arid mountains of Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula. The mocha variety of coffee favors a terrain of low bushes on barely cultivated land, and these plants sprout miraculously from spring water oases and rock-hewn terraces — where they have to struggle to produce every single coffee cherry.

 

The centuries-old method for rendering the beans is equally arduous. When most of the cherries are ripe, the farmers pick them all at once and dry them on rooftops and hardened-earth patios. These dried coffee cherries are then hand-milled through traditional stone wheels to remove the hulls and release the two beans inside. This timeless, organic process is what accounts for the rare and naturally wild flavors characteristic of Arabian Mocha Sanani coffee.

 

Although the unusually small, rounded beans are irregular in form, size, and color, they brew one of the finest cups of coffee on earth. The flavor is reminiscent of a spicy wine, with a full body and pungent, exceedingly complex aroma. Excellent on its own or blended, the unique taste is a perfect complement to almost any other coffee — especially in the classic blend with Java.

 

GROWER:  Ali Hiba Muslot & Sons

 

REGION:  Smallholder farmers from the western highlands of Yemen

 

ALTITUDE:  2,000 – 2,500 meters

 

PROCESS:  Full natural and dried on rooftops

 

VARIETY:           

Indigenous heirloom cultivars

 

HARVEST:  July - October

ARRIVED:  March 19, 2017

 

SOIL:  Clay minerals

Importers Notes: Soft texture, heavy body, dried stone fruits, chocolate, typical wild-earthy.  

 

 

BACKGROUND DETAILS

Yemen Mocca Sanani is sourced from family owned plots located throughout the western highlands of Yemen, parallel to the Red Sea between the city of Ta’izz in the south and Sa’dah in the north.  Yemen is perhaps the most historic coffee growing region in the world, second only to Ethiopia, with a lineage spanning more than 2,000 years.  Coffee production continues today with many of the same traditions dating back to the 15th century, like drying coffee naturally in the cherry on the rooftops of houses perched on the edges of steep mountain ridges.

Below is the Royal Coffee cupping thought of this Yemen coffee.  The larger the type the more pronounced.

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