Five Senses Coffee Blog

Pick Merah!

One of the big things we’ve been trying to impress upon the farmers is to pick ripe cherries. After spending some time today picking we quickly realised that its not that easy. The cherry is at various stages of ripeness all over the tree and  progress is frustratingly slow.  Picking ripe cherries means making a lot more passes through the farm over the harvest period and to a pragmatic farmer that doesn’t make a lot of sense. So we will keep emphasising the “pick merah” message but we will be a bit more sympathetic if it doesn’t always meet our high standards.
We’ve also heard our coffee increasingly  referred to as “the speciale”. Think we may have found a new name for this years crop!

Ripe cherries in Bali