World-Class Liberica Coffee

The Liberica Coffee (mainly used in combination with chocolate) is grown on Principe. The different varieties of Arabica have their home on the island of São Tomé. Half way up the highest mountain on the island of Sao Tome lies the plantation of Nova Moca. Here Claudio and his team cultivate the different varieties of Arabica on terraces protected by stone walls. Some of these varieties are the world's most exquisite and rare species.  The fruits, once they are perfectly mature, are harvested by hand one by one and processed using natural methods developed by Claudio himself in order to preserve the different aromas of each species and variety of bean. The Liberica Coffee is an almost extinct variety of coffee. It was abandoned because it was much less productive than Arabica or Robusta, and because its beans, which are particularly large and hard, must be peeled by hand, one by one. On our plantation Terreiro Velho on the Island of Principe we grow this extraordinary cof