Divisa Estate Coffee Beans

Lumu Sudan comes from the Divisa Estate (Coffea diversa Garden) in Costa Rica. This estate also has the elegant nickname “Thousand & Million Coffee Garden.” Clearly different from most coffee farms, the Divisa Estate is adopting a “coffee garden” business model.

The estate cultivates many rare local and even exotic varieties and their mutations. It’s worth mentioning that most of the variants grown here cannot be found anywhere else in the world, making it the only place where rare varieties are commercially cultivated. Among them is an ancient and rare wild coffee variety: Lumu Sudan.

In the coffee family tree, Lumu Sudan has a history even older than that of Typica and Bourbon. Essentially a wild coffee, its biological characteristics include dark green, broad leaves, medium shoot spacing, medium branch spacing, and small, elongated bean shape.

It was discovered in 1940 in the Rume Valley on the Boma Plateau near the Ethiopian border in southeastern South Sudan. Its code name RS-510 became known in the coffee world. In 2015, the renowned coffee master Sasa selected this then-obscure Lumu Sudan as the competition bean and won the WBC championship that year, drawing attention to it.

The Divisa Estate offers not only washed processed beans but also anaerobic processed ones, yielding richly diverse flavors. Coffee lovers should definitely give them a try.