A COFFEE JOURNEY TO MEXICO JUNGLE, COLONIALISM, MAYANS AND COFFEE A country full of contradictions. On the ground, in the climate, in the culture. With tropical forests, hidden Mayan temples in the jungle, colonial Spanish-speaking cities and coffee farms.Despite all the inconsistency, one thing is all in agreement:Coffee is the "black nectar of dreams". CAFE ‘ALTURA’ THE HIGHER, THE BETTER COFFEE Farms in Chiapas are inaccessible, 'hooked' on steep slopes and everything is done by hand. Owners are families and the average area is from 10 to 20 acres. And so is the 75% of the total coffee production in the country. But not only the plantations are high. It's the quality! FACING OBSTACLES To get to the coffee trees...
A travel to Indonesia Where the fairytale meets reality! Arriving at Indonesia, you realize that the creatures of fairy tales may not only live in imagination. You are in a landscape full of paradise flowers, strange houses, colorful lakes on craters of volcanoes and … dragons in a breathtaking distance. At the same time, however, you are also in the fourth largest coffee country in the world. Sulawesi. The hometown of the mythical breed of Toray The largest island of the Indonesian Archipelago. To get from one village to the other we needed continuous flights and a lot of patience. When we met the breed of Toraja (To: Riajam people: Oresebi) we were left with our mouths open. Their homes...
Welcome to the world’s biggest coffee country producer! We are a family-owned brand that selects coffees. When you hear: “coffee production” almost automatically you will think Brazil. And not unfairly, since it has 1/3 of the total coffee production in the world, steadily over the last 150 years. It is no coincidence that their language does not have the word breakfast, but café da manhã which means morning coffee. The story started from … love Until 1727, the government of the country was trying unsuccessfully to import coffee beans from French Guiana. Only Francisco De Mello Palheta did it after telling the governor’s wife who gave him the precious ‘material’ hidden in a bouquet of flowers.From this … conquest, Brazil...
Nothing remains hidden under the sun! The journey of Dimello coffee to Brazil In Brazil coffee trees have only the sun above them. They grow in strips and reach 1 meter in width and up to 3 meters in height.Essentially, the tree is a trunk with braches full of fruit from top to bottom. The cherry trees The harvesting of the crop is carried out by mechanical collectors, which vibrate the tree as they pass through it. Thus, the more ripe and looser cherries fall and are gathered for sorting and processing. Concerning the majority of coffee cultivations in the country, harvesting is performed in this way and although it has received widespread criticism from coffee experts, it is also...
In India coffee needs its shadow! The journey of Dimello coffee to India The coffee trees of India grow among rubber trees, peppers, areka nuts and more. One could say that coffee lives in the shadow of other trees. But its result is so unique that it overshadows whatever is beside it. To describe coffee trees one must imagine large green umbrellas. The trunk reaches up to one and a half meter and from that point on it opens just like an umbrella. This is a factor that makes harvesting quite difficult, as one must get under the tree and “milk” the fruit. Coffee trees are very thirsty! Upon reaching one of the largest coffee farms, we did not find...
