Sumatra Lintong Dry-Processed

Sweet Maria's Coffee

Oh joy...this coffee smells so good while roasting, it smells so good green too! I don't mean to wax poetics, but I love all those smells when they converge: sweet tropical flowers, trees honeyed with sap, moist earth. While Lintong is a premium Mandheling, it ironically is not all that attractive in appearance. I was a little disappointed with the preparation when I saw it. It does not have the darker, bluer appearance as we sometimes see, hence the name Blue Lintong. Yes, this IS Blue Lintong, but it seemed ironic to me to call it blue when its not, so we'll just call it Lintong for now. Anyway I am not what they call an "eye-cupper" in the trade...you CANNOT know the cup quality of a coffee by looking at the appearance of the green, and you shouldn't do that either: odd looking coffees sometimes have the best cup! And you don't drink coffee with your eyeballs. So I put it up against the other excellent Sumatras from this year and I loved it! It's a sweeter in the aroma, with a candy apple character, and fruitier, brighter Sumatra, as opposed to the earthier tongue-grabbing pruney ones. There's an aromatic woodyness in the lighter roast that is very pleasant, somewhat sandalwood, and a hint of almond oils. Of course it has a full, rich, oily body and great depth. In fact, most of the flavors in a Sumatra are not in the aromatic and volatile chlorogenic acids (Sumatra has low measurable quantities of acids) but in the soluble solids that give a sense of heavy body/mouthfeel, and in the fats/lipids. You sense these flavors in the back of the mouth, in the oily, waxy soluble solids.

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