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Papua New Guinea
Coffee from India & the Pacific
The best-known and most distinctive Pacific coffee origins are grown in the Malay Archipelago, that chain of often enormous islands that make up the nations of Indonesia, Timor and Papua New Guinea. These coffees include the deep-toned traditionally processed coffees of Sumatra, Sulawesi and Timor, with their complex fruit, earth, and musty notes. By contrast, wet-processed coffees of Sumatra, Java, and Papua New Guinea are bright and floral and may range from delicate to intensely and fragrantly acidy.
Coffee labeled New Guinea comes from Papua New Guinea, often abbreviated PNG, which occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea.
Most New Guineas sold in North American specialty stores are estate coffees: either Sigri, grown in Western Highlands Province near the town of Mount Hagen by the W.R. Carpenter company, or estate coffees from the Eastern Highlands Province exported by Angko Limited as Arusafa or Arona.
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