Myanmar Greenland Washed Premium Origin Coffee

Description

Green Land Coffee Plantation was founded by U Sai Wan Maing in 1999 after
selling his rubber plantation. It is located in Pyin Oo Lwin, formerly Maymyo,
a scenic hill town known for its botanical gardens and examples of colonial
architecture. Rising from the central basin, it is contained within the Shan
plateau at 1150 metres above sea level in the east of Myanmar and forms part of
the
Indo-Malayan mountain system.

Green Land is one of Myanmar’s largest coffee plantations, starting out as 30
acres with a rapid expansion in the fi rst three years to becoming over 580,000
coffee trees grown on 450 acres. The main variety grown is known locally as
Costa Rica, though in reality is a Catimor from Costa Rica. Sl34 forms around
10% of the farm but U Sai Wan is also conducting experiments with Yellow
Bourbon, Caturra and Catuai too. Shade is too heavy to produce great quality
in some areas of the farm, and Rust has already started in the older trees, so
these areas are forming the focus for the immediate future.
Once picked, the beans are immediately separated from the cherries and
naturally sun-dried, then sorted in size and hand-graded to remove the
impurities. Although Green Land have both a wet and dry mill on the farm, this is
still early days and a lot of the dry milling is done with MCG (Mandalay Coffee
Group), the exporter.

Country Myanmar
Division Mandalay
Town Pyin Oo Lwin
Farm Green Land Estate
Producer U Sai Wan Maing
Altitude 1100-1250 masl
Varietal Costa Rica (Catimor)
Harvest January – March
Process Washed