

Gayo coffee’s entry to the world commodity market is due to its highly valued, typical flavor. Almost 80 percent of coffee growers in Central Aceh maintains organic plantations. Small holding coffee plantations in the Lues, totaling 94,500 hectares. The area is part of the Bukit Barisan mountain range, which stretches across the island of Sumatra. This special coffee comes from the Gayo highlands in Central Aceh, near Lake Laut Tawar, which is surrounded by thousands of hectares of vegetation, mostly coffee and pine.

Mandheling coffee is grown in altitudes of 2,500 to 5,000 feet.

Later, the word spread to Japan, and then the name stuck as merchants began inquiring about the purchase of Mandheling coffee from Sumatra/Ĭoffee trees were brought to the island in the early 19th century in an attempt to break the near monopoly on coffee beans from other parts of the world. While most coffee is named after the growing region, or the country, Mandheling coffee is named after the Mandailing people that traditionally farmed and processed the coffee beans in the Tapanuli region. Sumatra Mandheling coffee is one of the common four types of Sumatra Arabica coffee.
