2010-01-22

Heading Southwards to Ping-Dong Coffee Cupping Competition 2009/2010




Last year in 2009, there was a pretty horrible typhoon on Aug. 8th, which caused a serious damage to most central and southern Taiwan regions. Among those regions, Ping-Dong, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, also went through a bad time in this natural disaster.

People has planted quite a few coffee trees in the higher altitude area of Ping-Dong County, around 1500m-1700m. This is a very rare altitude without the harm of frost since Ping-Dong located in this most tropical-like climate zone in Taiwan. In my first attendance of the Competition in Dec. 2008, I tasted some really potential Taiwanese-grown coffees from Ping-Dong County. But at that time the processing methods of farmers were not mature enough to make their coffees shine. Yet, like I said, potential was there already.

Thanks to Mr. Lee of Ping-Dong Coffee Estate, farmers all over Taiwan have more professional equipment to assist the green coffee processing. Hope to see some great stuffs this year.

Gotta catch the train now. See you guys when I'm back.