Region: Sơn La
Varietal: Catimor
Process: Washed
Altitude:1,000 MASL
Cupping Notes: Red Apple, Orange, Brown Sugar
Recommended Roast: City to Full City+
Good For: Pour Over, Auto-Drip, Espresso, Blends

Description: This lot comes to Bodhi Leaf from Sơn La, a mountainous region in the Northwest of Vietnam, about 300 kilometers away from the capital, Hanoi. Coffee production goes back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when French colonialists began planting coffee in Sơn La and other northern provinces. In the past decades, Sơn La has developed into a major Arabica coffee producing hub of Vietnam. “Sơn La” coffee dates back to 1945, when a local started growing coffee trees in his garden. This event is recorded in the book “Sơn La and coffee”. Since then, coffee has been gradually developed, contributing to the incomes of the local minor ethnicities, and helping them move onward from their nomadic lifestyle. Coffee production has become a part of the locals’ lives and everyday practices. After more than 70 years of development, Sơn La coffee has become a specialty of Sơn La province and has an established position in the market.

This coffee isn’t meant to be the most wild, experimental coffee, it’s the kind of coffee that you could drink every morning and never get tired of. With the mild fruity notes of both Apple and Orange along with the sweetness of Brown Sugar, we could see this as a fun option to spice things up between Colombian and Guatemalan Washed coffees.