Cristo Luirai

About This Coffee

This coffee is from the Cristo Liurai Cooperative in Timor-Leste, consisting of 18 farmers farming between 1500 and 1600 meters above sea level. The cooperative is led by Luis Santos de Jesus and has been working with Karst Organics since 2020. The lot was processed using a traditional washed technique where cherry is pulped, fermented in tanks, fully washed, and dried on raised African drying beds. The varieties are Timor Hybrid and Typica. Flavor notes include apricot, lemon, and dates. Farmers were paid $4.00/kg for parchment coffee, harvested between May and August 2025.

Origin

Timor-Leste

Flavor Notes

Lemon

Roast Level

—

Processing

Washed

Typology

Arabica

Timor Hybrid, Typica

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Cartwheel Coffee Roasters

Alex Bitsios Esposito grew up around specialty coffee, helping at his mother Silvana's shop The Bean in Beeston, Nottingham from the age of eight. By 14 he had worked every role in the business, and around 2004 he became the first person in Nottingham pouring latte art. In 2015, Alex and his wife Becci launched Cartwheel after she did actual cartwheels down the street where they planned to open. Alex is a qualified Q grader, and the roasting team includes multiple accredited Q graders alongside head roaster Ted. The operation puts out over 50 new coffees a year, sourced from Ethiopia to El Salvador, with a notable partnership with Colombian producer Gildardo Lopez, whose Pink Bourbon finished in the top three of a Coffeevine blind cupping in 2022. The approach is deliberately playful in an industry that often takes itself very seriously.

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