New coffee profile: Celebes Kalossi

Origin: Toraja (also Kalosi) growing region, southwestern Sulawesi, IndonesiaNotes: Sulawesi coffee, grown in the mountains at the southwestern-reaching tip of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) near the port of Ujung Pandang (formerly Makassar), typically offers a more extreme version of the traditional Sumatra Mandheling cup, heavier, more pungent, more ambiguous. Blind Assessment: Lushly high-toned, remarkably complex aroma: flowers (tea-rose?), temperate fruit (pear perhaps), milk chocolate. Slumps toward a lower-key bittersweet character in the cup with only occasional glimpses of chocolate, but the giddy floral top notes persist. Slightly astringant finish.Who should drink it: Lighter toned and less heavy than most traditional dark-roasted Sulawesis, but still pungent and complex: Sulawesi , a very good one.