About this Coffee
For those who embrace a bit of wildness, a full-bodied desert miracle from Yemen’s harsh, dry mountain terrain.
Distinctive in flavor and appearance, Arabian Mocha Sanani grows under harsh, primitive conditions in the arid mountains of Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula. The mocha variety of coffee favors a terrain of low bushes on barely cultivated land, and these plants sprout miraculously from spring water oases and rock-hewn terraces—where they have to struggle to produce every single coffee cherry.
The centuries-old method for rendering the beans is equally arduous. When most of the cherries are ripe, the farmers pick them all at once and dry them on rooftops and hardened-earth patios. These dried coffee cherries are then hand-milled through stone wheels to remove the hulls and release the beans inside. This timeless process is what accounts for the rare and naturally wild flavors characteristic of Arabian Mocha Sanani.
Although the small, rounded beans are irregular in form, size, and color, they brew one of the finest cups of coffee on earth. The flavor is reminiscent of a spicy wine, with a full body and pungent, exceedingly complex aroma, a perfect complement to almost any other coffee—especially in the classic blend with Java.