Altitude: 1.400 – 1.650 masl
Soils: volcanic loam
Average annual temperature: 17.3 C
Average rainfall: 1896 mm
Up to 8 containers / year (Depends on weather, processing & grading)
Gayo Highland is the largest Arabica plantation in Southeast Asia, especially for specialty coffee.
Gayo coffee is considered as one of the most premium coffee beans in the world because of the fine aroma and not-so-bitter taste. The strong characteristics of Gayo beans make it popular and often added to house blends to increase the overall aroma and body.
The soil, landscape and climate of the plantation area contribute to its rich characteristics; strong body and complex flavors. Gayo coffee belongs to the premium category, equally compared to other world-renowned coffee beans.
Gayo coffee has obtained the Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) status from the European Union (EU). This special status means that the product will benefit from the same protection and market added-value as EU protected products.
Blanco Coffee Indonesia is managing around 400 hectares of coffee plantation, and is partnering with dozens of small-holder farmers.
Located in Pantan Musara Village, Aceh Tengah, it takes approximately 1.5 hours to get to our plantation from Rembele Airport. Lush green hills swarmed with red hanging coffee cherries greet anyone who passes by. As you get further away from the city center to the higher grounds, you’ll feel the fresh breeze of good quality air as you reach 1600 masl on the way to our plantation. Such luxury is great for coffee processing center.
We take good care of many superior varieties such as Bourbon, Cattura, and a quite phenomenal old variety called Abyssinia. Did you know that Abyssinia has a remarkable aroma and unique flavor characteristics? Such a good example of ‘old but gold’, it is.
To make sure you have a pleasant experience at our plantation, we provide facilities such as airport transfer, guest house, and private trips as per request.
Blanco always believe that in order to produce best quality coffee, human resources is the number one issue that needs attentive consideration.
By cooperating well with our small-holder farmers, Blanco is able to always give maximum effort in knowledge sharing regarding plantation activity.
From general maintenance issues to preventive measures on diseases like CBD, CLD, etc., and climate change, all in the effort of producing consistent product.
Not only focusing on farmers’ learning, we also focus on community building. Most of our farmers and Pantan Musara villagers are trained to be able to communicate with buyers, both local and international. Our coffee trip has become the highly-anticipated event as everyone can connect and share their stories freely.
Having run the business for 7 years, our priority is to always be transparent about our coffee’s traceability.
Likewise, there are no blinders when it comes to price. We realize that there are complaints regarding an inconsistent green bean quality from buyers out there, hence we always provide transparent pricing.
Our buyers are always welcome to visit and explore our plantation. Get a closer look, have a chat with the farmers, review the beans quality first-hand before we ship them out.
The way we see it, direct trading is not just about fairness. By being transparent, we hope that it will provide sustainability in the long run.
We are committed to coffee greatness. Therefore we put our maximum effort on the post-harvest activities, from start to end.
The processing facility is equipped with these tools:
Wet Mill: Pulper, Washing Station, Zig-zag Canal, Fermentation Tank Dry Mill: Patio, Huller, African Patio, Poly-tunnel Grading & Sortation: Sutton, Sorting Facility (size grader/hand-pick) GE Lab: Sample Roaster, Cupping Station, Coffee Machine.
These facilities are built to welcome buyers and coffee enthusiasts:
Guest House
Cupping Room
Mini bar (Espresso Bar and Manual Brew Bar)
Want a free sample?
Check our green bean availability here.
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Thermal Maceration in wine-making processing is different from the protocol in coffee-processing where thermal or thermo is an addition “heat” injected to the object as a variable to create another spectrum taste in wine-making at the middle of processing, also some winery applies this ‘thermal’ as mandatory, while in coffee processing we apply it at a very beginning of a processing step.
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / November 29, 2021
June 2021, while working on some internal Blanco project, we took time to visit our coffee relatives in Bali Belantih Coffee Farm. We share our knowledge with Wayan Wijaya about the coffee plantation history here in Bali and how he started the post-harvest manufacture named Belantih Coffee Farm.
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / July 13, 2021
Based on the research published by R. Hirschmann on March 22, 2021. Indonesia's coffee consumption has almost quadrupled since 1990, by reaching the equivalent of 288.360 tons of coffee in 2019/2020.
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / April 1, 2021
On 5th – 7th of October 2018, Blanco Coffee Indonesia has successfully held its first project ever of Coffee & Cultural Trip in Gayo Highland. Coffee enthusiasts from Jakarta, Yogyakarta
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / September 12, 2020
After a year of back and participating in the various international exhibition, We are pleased to announce that we finally reached an agreement with Belgium Specialty Coffee Importer for our Arundaya Bean.
NEWS / Blanco Coffee / September 11, 2020
Just a few moments before COVID-19 Pandemic changed our whole activities, Blanco Kopi Indonesia escorted our two fellows, Max from Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei, Hamburg
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / September 10, 2020
The carbonic maceration process in specialty coffee processing is no longer a new thing today. Some coffee producers heard it 7 years ago, but today this process is still trending in various producer regions in Indonesia.
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / September 8, 2020
We will tell you a process that coffee cherry has to go through. Simplest steps to understand this process will be explained below.
PLANTATION / Blanco Coffee / September 7, 2020
We will share our brewing recipe for our beans Arundaya Giling Basah using Clever Dripper as the brewing method.
ROASTERY / Blanco Coffee / September 5, 2020
Introducing you to our drip bag coffee, a new way of enjoying coffee for those of you who want to enjoy coffee in a fast and simple way. all you need to do is following this instruction.
ROASTERY / Blanco Coffee / September 4, 2020
