Waliki Estate Coffee Beans

Over the past three hundred years, coffee has transformed from a beverage of the aristocracy to one enjoyed by the masses, from a medicinal herb to a social drink. Today, the coffee industry has endowed it with even more complex identities and meanings. We can find evidence of this in coffee farms around the world—take, for example, this “Hello” coffee, the Waliki Estate coffee beans.

This Bolivian cocoa natural-processed Java comes from a small estate called Waliki. Its name is inspired by a local greeting that means “How is everything?” The response is “All good” or “Hakuna Matata.” We often say that coffee is one of the world’s three major beverages, alongside tea and cocoa, and is widely enjoyed across the globe. A large part of the reason for this is that coffee, much like the weather, appears in people’s daily lives as a tool and medium for social interaction—like saying hello. Getting back to the point, the Waliki Estate is located in Bolinda, about 10 kilometers outside the town of Caranavi in La Paz, Bolivia, nestled in a dense and steep valley.
 
The Waliki Estate is owned by the Rodriguez family. The Rodriguez family runs a family business called Agricafe, which produces coffee from their own estate and sources high-quality small-batch crops from small producers in the Yungas region. The Waliki Estate covers an area of 3.62 hectares at an altitude of 1,600 meters. This high elevation helps ensure the slow ripening of the coffee cherries. This gradual ripening process leads to increased sugar concentration in the cherries, resulting in a sweeter coffee.

One of the coffee varieties grown at the Waliki Estate is Java(Java), which is locallyreferred to as the long beandue to its elongated bean shape.It was previously widely believed that Java was a variety of Typica, but genetic comparisons have shown that Java actually originates from an Ethiopian coffee variety called Abysinia. Its history of widespread commercial cultivation is relatively short, making it a relatively young specialty bean.