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Red Dragon Estate

Yunnan, China

Red Sparrow

Variety

Catimor

Flavor Notes

Pineapple | Strawberry Jam | Red Wine | Mint

Process

Anaerobic Natural

Altitude

1650-1750m

Lot Type

Competition Lot

ETA UK

In Stock

About the Coffee

Detailed process:

Use all ripped coffee cherry only (all red cherry) and then re-picked the coffee cherry through floatation methods. After selection, all coffee cherries are sealed in a big fermentation tank to ferment – temperature 22 Celsius. After fermentation, leave the coffee cherry to sun dry for approximate 30 days.


Road to Championship lot of WBC 21 - Champion of China

The Red Sparrow is a small bird from Gaoligong Mountain, opposite the planting farms of Red Dragon Estate. It's entirely red body resembles sun-dried coffee beans. The name gave Lao Wang a sense of rebelliousness, so the name of 'Red Sparrow' is given to the best coffee at that time – an anaerobic natural catimor made from all ripped coffee cherry planted in Red Dragon Estate. This name represents the mission of this coffee: to break and transform the tradition image of Yunnan coffee.

In February 2021, Zhao Xin, the green buyer for Chinese Barista Pan Wei, asked Lao Wang (Owner of Red Dragon Estate) to send some Yunnan coffee beans for Pan Wei's competition. She also requested fresh coffee cherries for creative coffee ingredients. Red Sparrow was chosen one by Pan Wei. During CBC 2021 competition, 'Red Sparrow' , a catimor with strong prejudice of devil aftertaste, stepped into barista competition stage to compete with other well-known star varieties e.g. Geisha, Bourbon, Typica and etc.

Beyond everyone's expectations, Pan Wei used 'Red Sparrow' to win the barista championship in 2021, and therefore he is able to represent China to compete in WBC 2024.

About 

Red Dragon Estate

Lao Wang's Journey to Coffee Grower of Red Dragon Estate

 

'Good coffee speaks for itself, without the need for human's voice.' - by Lao Wang, founder of Voiceless and Red Dragon Estate.


It has been 8 years since Mr Wang (In Chinese, we always call him Lao Wang) started working in the coffee industry and processing his first batch of coffee. Growing up in Baoshan, Lao Wang was always influenced by his parents, who praised Baoshan's small-bean coffee. He wondered if Yunnan had such good coffee. Therefore, he made the decision to come back to his hometown and visit the coffee production areas in Baoshan Yunnan for decision. Between the end of 2016 and start 2017, Lao Wang drove his dad’s car and nearly visited around 80% of the mountains in Baoshan's Lujiangba region.


Finally, he found Red Dragon Estate. The high altitude of this farmland, reaching up to 1887 meters, really impressed Lao Wang. In Red Dragon Estate, Lao Wang met Uncle who was cultivating coffee for his entire life. Uncle Yang’s dedication and passion in coffee really impressed and convinced Lao Wang to make the decision to grow up with Red Dragon Estate. With no money in his pocket, Lao Wang promised Uncle Yang higher-than-market prices for their fully ripe cherries and promise to offer free seedlings of new coffee varieties. After two meetings, Uncle Yang became Lao Wang company's first employee.


That year (2017), Uncle Yang picked a lot of cherries from Red Dragon Estate, and his family dedicated hand picked fully ripped ones (complete red coffee cherry) for Lao Wang to taste. The distinct quality and clean flavor of the coffee made from fully ripped coffee cherries really convinced Lao Wang.

From that point, Lao Wang established the very first belief of his business to use fully ripped coffee cherry only with no compromise – Lao Wang's All Red Cherry Plan



In June 2017, Lao Wang decided to go out and learn more. He spent about six months to get Q-Grader certification, intermediate roasting, and barista training in Beijing. He also learnt intermediate barista skills and gold cup standards and completed advanced SCA.

In April 2018, Lao Wang cultivated about 70,000 Typica seedlings at the altitude of 1887m in Red Dragon Estate and started his Typica Renovation Project.


In the same year of 2019, Voiceless company was established by Lao Wang – the company name is coming from Lao Wang' s truly belief that good coffee speaks for itself, without the need for human's voice. Voiceless's slogan - 'We just speak by our coffee'. Since then, Lao Wang started his crazy process experiments on Yunnan coffees by taking the inspiration from WBC and WBRC. Finally, he found that Restraint Anaerobic Fermentation might be the solution for Yunnan Catimor to overcome the earthiness of the after taste.



Since then, Lao Wang steadily improved the planting technologies and experimented with new processing methods year by year until today. No matter how the process is changing year by year, only using fully ripped coffee cherries with no compromise of quality remains core value of Red Dragon Estate and Voiceless.

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