All our Java coffees comes from Sunda, the best and oldest terroir on the island (Western Java). The Sundanais are the second biggest ethnic group in Indonesia.
This coffee, which is a European exclusive, is produced by Klasik Beans who who take pride in their ecological and human commitment and the quality of coffee. Klasik Beans is a cooperative founded in 2008 by a group of producers in Puntang (Java). This small cooperative shares a very similar philosophy to Belco, from a quality, human and environmental point of view. The cooperative's aim is to preserve Indonesian cultural heritage through the creation of sustainable, organic and fair trade coffees. Production must adhere to good farming practices (today production is almost organic and totally under shade).
In Java, Klasik Beans is a smooth operating organisation which more than 1000 members who transport their coffees to their five wet mills (Pacet, Puntang, Garut, Ciwidey and Cimenyan). These facilities allow them to take full control of the entire production of their lots, from receiving the beans to processing. They can carry out all types of processing: semi-washed, fully washed, natural, honey and wet hulled.
This coffee is a blend of typica, line S and catimor, grown exclusively under shade of a range of different trees (pine, eucalyptus, avocado and erythrina). This coffee was prepared using 5 different processes: semi-washed, fully washed, natural, honey and wet hulled. This particular lot is a wet hulled process.
