Lộc Rừng - Vietnam
Lộc Rừng - Vietnam
A light-medium roast, natural process coffee from Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. Papaya, jackfruit, and lime brightness from 192 hours of spring water fermentation. A limited lot from a four-person team redefining what Vietnamese coffee can be.
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The Divine Details
The Sensory Sacraments
We Looked Back.
Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world. You'd never know it from most specialty roaster shelves, because the industry wrote Vietnam off as a commodity origin a long time ago and largely never looked back. We looked back. Lộc Rừng, which translates to "Nature's Gift," is a small processing operation in the highlands of Lam Dong Province, nestled between two primary forests at 1,500 meters. Managed by Kate and Leo, it's a team of four or five people doing work that most operations ten times their size can't touch: ripe-cherry-only standards, relentless fermentation experimentation, and a commitment to sustainability that Kate calls foundational to her entire generation of Vietnamese coffee professionals.
This lot is processed through their in-house Ferveo method, named from the Latin for "to bubble," where cherries ferment in spring water for a full 192 hours before slow drying on raised beds for up to 20 days. The bubbling they watch for during peak fermentation isn't just visual drama, it's a sign that something alive is happening in there, a healthy biological transformation that produces papaya, jackfruit, oolong tea, and a lime brightness that has no business being this elegant.
We paid $6.69/lb FOB, and just over $9/lb landed for this coffee, more than double the commodity price. That's what it takes to actually support the people doing this work, and frankly, it's worth every cent.
This is a limited lot. Get it while it exists.