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Kaanapali Coffee, on the island of Maui near the historical town of Lahaina, offers what may be the widest range of flavor profiles available from any single coffee farm in the world. From its inception, Kaanapali separated and sold its coffee by botanical variety — the wildly fruity Moka, the quietly classic heirloom Typica, the crisply bright Yellow Caturra, and the complex Catuai. Furthermore, Kaanapali processes coffee from each of these four varieties using two different methods: the wet process, which emphasizes the clean, bright aspects of each profile, and the natural dry process, emphasizing low-key complexity. Thus in any one crop year Kaanapali offers eight very different cups — four botanical varieties of coffee, each processed by two different methods. Although the exotic, chocolate-and-fruit-toned Moka attracts the most attention from buyers, the other three varieties in their quieter way produce subtly nuanced and often striking cups.

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