Sunday, October 26, 2008

Monkey Parchment Coffee

We're winding down on this offering, so I wanted to post the coffee's information before it was sold out and give anyone interested a chance at having some before it's too late.

This is a light-roasted, heavy-bodied, herbal and nutty coffee.

Monkey Parchment is the world's rarest, and currently most expensive, exotic coffee available. The Monkey Parchment coffee takes everyone by surprise, raising eyebrows just by its name, but the truly unprecedented uniqueness of the coffee's flavors and aromatics is the real eye-opener.

This coffee's story begins in Chikmagular, India and involves, as the name would suggest, monkeys, Rhesus Monkeys to be exact. Occupying the forests of India, Rhesus Monkeys leisurely dine on the ripest, sweetest coffee cherries they can find. After chewing on the fruit for several minutes, they spit the coffee parchment covered seed out onto the forest floor. Trained workers (those with an eagle eye) then meticulously search the ground for these preciously left-over seeds, which are then thoroughly rinsed, washed, processed, and dried.

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