Revolutionary

Notes of chocolate brownie, cherry cola, raspberry jam, and nutmeg.From Wadi Jannat, the Valley of Paradise, in the Ba'dan district of Ibb, Yemen. One of the country's most celebrated highland terroirs, nourished by seasonal rains and natural springs, where families maintain ancestral irrigation channels and work collectively at harvest.The variety is SL34, a Bourbon-line cultivar selected in Kenya in the 1930s and now grown back in the region where the Bourbon lineage began. At 2,000 metres, in Yemeni terroir, it expresses something different than it does anywhere else. Processing is Alchemy XI, Qima's proprietary protocol developed across more than 1,300 experiments. Twelve hours of aerobic fermentation, two to three days of carbonic maceration, a semi-anaerobic phase on raised beds, and twenty-five days of slow drying.This is what convergence looks like in a cup. Ancestral land. A variety travelling home. A fermentation protocol built from a thousand experiments. Held together at 2,000 metres.