A Coffee Production Company Built on Excellence

Absolute Palate®, a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) in the State of Hawaii, is owned by its Founders, Drs. Bruce E. and Cynthia A. Maryanoff. The company was established in 2015 with the purchase of two coffee farms in the iconic Kona Coffee Belt on the Big Island of Hawaii. Our coffee fruit (cherry) is derived from Cynthiana Farm in South Kona and Honalo Farm in North Kona. Our coffee orchards are dry-farmed and our Kona coffee is shade-grown.

We process, custom-roast, and sell high-quality, single-estate 100% Kona coffee, focusing on premium and super-premium brands. We have a state-of-the-art coffee processing/roasting facility at Honalo Farm, our corporate headquarters, and develop brands that convey taste characteristics of the specific terroirs.

We operate the website “Absolutely! Kona Coffee®” (www.absolutelykona.com) to sell coffee products directly to consumers. Our on-site decaffeination facility at Honalo Farm uses supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), with supercritical CO2 at a specific temperature and pressure, to remove almost all of the original caffeine.

Numerous experiments with our Waters Corporation SFE equipment led us to optimal conditions for removing the initial caffeine present to obtain 100% Kona decaf coffee that is at least 99.9% caffeine-free (determined by chemical analysis). This "Absolute Decaf" coffee, roasted medium-dark and supplied ground, expresses a fine aroma and rich flavor ... very impressive! Unfortunately, this unique product was discontinued after being marketed for 3 years due to the inherent expenses involved.

Our website for coffee sales was launched in April 2016. If you visited this "corporate website" hoping to purchase top-notch 100% Kona coffee, please point your browser to Absolutely! Kona Coffee® www.absolutelykona.com.

Our ripe coffee fruit is hand-picked in several passes through the orchard, usually from July through December. This situation is common to coffee growing, as rounds of flowering, thus rounds of harvesting, over the growing season are sequential. Our fruit is wet-milled and the resulting parchment is washed and sun-dried. We store the parchment for at least 8 weeks before any is made available for sale. This aged parchment is hulled and sorted on a fluidized-bed, gravity table into different grades, with 100% Kona Prime and Hawaiian being obtained. The 100% Kona Prime constitutes our Private Reserve brand.

We fully control the coffee harvesting and processing at both farms. A photo of our freshly picked, ripe cherry is shown here.