Our Story

Thirty years ago, Ali, the founder of Ali’i Kona Coffee, designed and built his plantation style home in the middle of coffee farms in the town of Holualoa, located at the foothill of Hualalai mountain, where the best Kona Coffee is grown.  He comes from a family that, for generations, farmed fruit orchards in the fertile valley of Persepolis (in the southern part of Iran, formerly known as Persia). After moving to Hawaii and discovering the smooth, rich flavor profile of Kona coffee, a seed was planted to one day own his own coffee farm and to also continue his ancestors' passion for gardening and farming.  As an architect, he was engaged by established coffee farmers to design buildings for processing coffee beans, which provided further knowledge and education to start a soil-to-shelf coffee business:  Ali’I Kona Coffee.