Low-altitude, frost-free subtropical farms around the Byron Bay hinterland, where the cooler climate is said to give sweet, chocolatey cups.
Northern New South Wales, including the Byron Bay hinterland, is the second Australian growing area. Farms sit at low altitude in a subtropical climate with high rainfall and no frost, and the cooler conditions are said to lengthen the ripening season. The cups are described as sweet and chocolatey.
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Coffee was grown in the Northern Rivers from the 1890s to about the 1920s, and the modern crop restarted in the late 1980s when a Dutch-born avocado grower planted at Newrybar.
In the cup, according to guides
- SweetnessMoreThe cooler NSW climate is said to yield distinctive sweet notes.
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