Yunma Torch Estate Lot 02 coffee pouch, 200 g of Yunnan beans, traditional honey, on a weathered wooden wall bracket against a charcoal door

Torch Estate, Lot 02

Coffee from Pu’er, Yunnan

€15200 g

Lime, olive, cacao liqueur.

Quantity
  • Roasted regularly
  • Ships within 48 business hours — free delivery from €50
Origin
Yunnan, China — Pu’er
Altitude
1,300 – 1,500 m
Variety
Catimor (Arabica)
Process
Traditional honey
Notes
Lime, olive, cacao liqueur
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A producer’s hands sorting coffee cherries in the washing tank, after pulping

About this coffee

A traditional honey, made for espresso. The mucilage left on the bean gives body and a cacao-liqueur sweetness, cut through by a lime acidity. That almost saline olive note is the signature of the lot: it comes back from one harvest to the next.

It is the lot we drink most often at home, as a tight espresso in the morning. It also holds remarkably well with milk: the cacao liqueur comes forward, the acidity falls into line. If you like an espresso with character and a touch of acidity, look no further — take this one.

Drying
Raised beds
Harvest
Hand-picked, always at ripeness
Profile
Espresso

Brewing guide

Espresso: 18 g for 40 ml in 26 seconds, water at 91 °C. For filter, stretch to 15 g per 260 ml.

Two Torch Estate producers among the flowering coffee trees in Pu’er
The farm

Torch Estate

Pu’er, Yunnan

Torch Estate farms its plots in the hills of Pu’er, at around 1,450 metres. Both our honey lots come from this same farm: Lot 01 in double anaerobic fermentation, Lot 02 in traditional honey. Same soil, same variety, two processes — and two cups with almost nothing in common.

Founded in 2014, Torch Estate settled directly on the growing land, in close partnership with local producers. Their model rests on co-creation rather than aid: they work with farmers to develop varieties (Catimor in particular) and to trial low-water processing methods.

Torch Estate created the “Mountain Man Project”, a programme to convert farms once geared to the commodity trade towards specialty, quality coffee, with technical support and a better return.