New Arrival from Timor
November 25, 2025
This coffee is grown by a small community of family‑owned farms in the village of Eratoi, located in the Ducurai sub‑district of Letefoho, within the mountainous municipality of Ermera in Timor‑Leste. The farms belong to a cooperative network called Café Brisa Serena (CBS), a social‑enterprise founded in 2010 with support from an international NGO to help smallholder farmers access specialty coffee markets. Despite their small size — most plots are well under a hectare — the farms benefit from decades‑old coffee trees, often under natural shade cover, thriving in the high‑altitude terrain (around 1,649 meters above sea level). Farmers there cultivate varieties such as the indigenous hybrid Timor Hybrid and Typica, and practice organic, low‑intervention farming: harvesting coffee cherries by hand and processing them via traditional washed methods followed by drying on raised beds or else greenhouse conditioning. CBS helps coordinate processing and export — providing quality‑control training, improving drying infrastructure, and organizing collective export — so that these small farms can consistently meet specialty‑coffee standards. The result is a genuinely traceable, high‑altitude Timorese coffee that reflects both the unique terroir of Ermera’s mountainous interior and the care of smallholder growers working in community rather than industrial plantation conditions.
Features
- CERTIFICATIONS | 100% USDA Organic
- LOCATION | Timor
- REGION I Eratoi, Timor-Leste
- VARIETY | Timor-Hybrid, Typica
- TASTING NOTES I Dark Chocolate and Cedar
- ALTITUDE | 1,649 masl
- PROCESS | Fully washed
- HARVEST | June-September
- LOT | 1258
