INDONESIA CURTINA MATIYA SURYA

Direct trade gives us something beyond access to good coffee. It allows us to understand the people behind each harvest and follow the decisions that shape its quality. This is our fourth year working with Curtina Coffee. Each season brings a new reason to look forward to Kintamani. This harvest, we managed to secure four distinct micro lots from the region, each offering a different expression of Bali’s coffee landscape.

Wana, the mind behind Curtina Coffee, approaches coffee as a craft that is never quite finished. From refining farming practices to exploring new processing methods and improving grading standards, his work is guided by a quiet pursuit of better coffee. One method we admire is submerged fermentation. Carefully picked and sorted cherries are fermented underwater where cooler temperatures slow the process and allow more time for delicate flavours to develop.

The result is a coffee that feels clean, transparent and effortlessly elegant. Brewed by hand, it reveals dried strawberry with red florals and nectarine in gentle harmony. On espresso, the fruit becomes more intense with ripe strawberry, refreshing green mango and sweet honeydew. Add milk and the profile turns softer and more indulgent with jammy strawberry and the texture of white chocolate mousse. A lingering bubblegum finish meets the sweetness of cantaloupe. Another fine expression from Curtina and one of our favourite coffees to roast.