About PNG Lamari

The coffee of the lamari valley is amongst the best to come out of PNG; it is far superior quality due to years of extension services to ensure quality focused picking, pulping, sorting, fermentation and drying.

The coffee is grown, processed & dried by smallholder growers and sold as parchment to the collection station on Baroida. The best quality lots (tested by visual, smell and years of experience) are separated for MTC, hulled, graded and prepared for export.

The coffee is brilliantly prepared far exceeding any other export lots for both visual and cup standards that are sold out of PNG.

The cup is balanced with medium body, slightly acidic, fruity rich berry-like flavors and sweetness with hints of cinnamon spice.

About Colbran Coffee lands

The Baroida Plantation, located in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, was founded by Ben Colbran, in the 1960’s. Ben first purchased the land from a native man named Taro & they were amongst the first people to cultivate crops in these valleys.

In 1965, the government encouraged the early settlers to start growing coffee as a long term sustainable crop & Ben, with the Baroida Plantation, started to plant coffee trees becoming one of the first coffee producers of the Eastern Highlands & exporting this coffee to the world from the first crop’s.

Like the spirit of Baroida, the Colbran Family is now in its third generation with Ben’s son Nickel and grandson Chris running not only the Baroida plantation but sourcing coffee from throughout a vast supply chain network of both estate and smallholder growers around them.

Through either luck or good design, the Baroida plantation sits at the apex of the Lamari river valley and Mount Jabarra range. The plantation itself sits at about 5,550ft amongst thousands of hectares of cleared land with former colonial coffee estates surrounding them (now run by native landowners) and flanked by mountains (up to 7,500ft) filled with small holder coffee producers.

All of this coffee, some 2,000tons p.a. pours out of the mountains by foot, bike, car and plane and into or through the Baroida plantation.

After some 50 years working with the estate and smallholder producers of this region; providing extension & agronomy services in the early years and more recently by building roads, bridges, schools and runways, the people of the lamari valley have build an enormous respect for the Colbran family as well as finding well needed markets for their coffee.

For the past 20 years, Colbrans served as collectors and agents for large multinational traders and ensured a consistent supply of direct trade super high quality coffees that was (and still is) highly sought after.

However in early 2010, MTC and Coffelands’ joined in a unique specialty coffee partnership, with the aim to bypass the large multinational traders and focus on unique, small lot specialty coffees. Colbrans have successfully been granted their own export license and we are both very excited to offer a range of specialty coffee, all slightly different and unique.