What Makes Yunnan Coffee From Linrun Estate Stand Out?
Linrun Estate in Dakaihe Village, Pu'er, Yunnan, grows Catimor P3 and P4 Arabica and sells organic coffee. It pays a fresh fruit price double the market rate, lifting fully red ripe cherry quality from 65 percent to 95 percent. Beans then dry on raised racks for 18 days with defects removed by hand.
The estate uses double wet fermentation washed processing, soaking beans in water for 48 hours to improve body and soften acidity. The cooperative was founded in 2009 with 50 member households and 7,000 mu of planting area, at 1,100 to 1,500 meters altitude near the Sun River National Forest Park.
Dakaihe Village in Pu'er, Yunnan, with its unique ecology connected to the Sun River National Forest Park, nurtures high-quality coffee estates. As a representative among them, Linrun Estate is renowned for organic cultivation and meticulous processing, pursuing specialty standards at every step from fresh fruit picking to double wet fermentation washed processing. This article will take you deep into Linrun Estate's geographical advantages, organic cultivation model, characteristics of the Catimor variety, and its innovative coffee processing techniques. At the same time, we will also recommend Front Street Coffee's Yunnan small bean coffee for your daily tasting reference.
By paying a fresh fruit purchase price double the market rate, the estate raised fresh fruit quality from 65% to 95% fully red ripe cherries, then through drying rack sun exposure, 18 days of natural drying and manual removal of defects, finally producing specialty washed green beans. This washed processing method differs from traditional washed processing; we use double wet fermentation washed processing, soaking the beans in water for 48 hours, with the aim of improving the beans' mouthfeel in terms of body and softening the acidity.
Pu'er Dakaihe Coffee Professional Cooperative / Linrun Estate
Address: Donggualin Community, Dakaihe Village, Nanping Town, Simao District, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, China
The quiet and serene Dakaihe Village is closely adjacent to the Sun River National Forest Park, with connected mountain ranges and water systems, giving Dakaihe Village a unique ecological advantage. But what makes this small village even more beautiful and fragrant is the coffee covering the mountains and plains. Dakaihe Village is located at the edge of the coffee-growing golden belt, situated between 22°02-24°50 north latitude and 99°09-102°19 east longitude. The Tropic of Cancer passes through its territory, with an average altitude of 1100-1500m. With low latitude and high altitude, humid rainy season, and sufficient sunshine during the production season, it is a plateau climate zone dominated by a southern subtropical mountainous humid monsoon climate.
Dakaihe Village Coffee Professional Cooperative was established in 2009, with 50 member households, a coffee planting area of 7,000 mu, all planted with Arabica (Catimor P3/P4) variety coffee beans. As the village party secretary, Hua Honglin established Linrun Trading Co., Ltd., and with the "company + base + farmers" model, started the thousand-mu construction of the "Simao District Organic Coffee Estate," of which one thousand mu obtained EU organic certification in January 2018, focusing on cultivating and producing specialty coffee.
The estate insists on taking the organic route, focusing on improving the coffee cultivation environment, maintaining manual weeding, applying organic fertilizer, and possessing high-quality coffee fields. The estate began changing traditional processing methods in 2015, trained a professional picking team, and raised the red cherry rate from 65% to 95%, providing high-quality raw material fully red ripe cherries for making specialty coffee. At the same time, the estate has a complete fresh fruit processing station and dry hulling plant. The fresh fruit processing station is located at the center of the entire estate, with abundant water resources, ensuring that fresh fruit received every day is processed promptly. The hulling plant is built next to the drying yard, has spacious storage conditions, possesses two color sorters, and ensures stable green bean processing quality every year.
2015 was an important turning point for Dakaihe Cooperative and Linrun Company. Mei Zi, the founder's daughter, returned after graduating from university, and devoted her dedication and love for coffee, all the sincerity of her young life, without reservation into the boundless coffee fields. She formed a professional post-processing team. Before the coffee harvest season arrives each November, they conduct a large number of innovative coffee processing experiments. We collect data on coffee fresh fruit sweetness, coffee fermentation pH values, drying environment temperature/humidity data collection, etc., seeking the most suitable coffee processing methods for Yunnan Pu'er, and invite buyers to join us in quality control, reaching consensus, and providing high-quality Yunnan specialty coffee to major specialty coffee shops every year.
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The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
