The Story Behind Ali’i Kona Coffee
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 at the foothill of Hualalai mountain, where you can find the best of Kona Coffee. He comes from a family who farmed fruit orchards for generations in the fertile valley of Persepolis in the southern part of Iran(Persia). Moving to Hawaii and discovering the world of Kona coffee planted the seed of a dream to one day have a coffee farm and continue his ancestors' passions for gardening and farming. He learned a lot about Kona coffee as a result of designing buildings for processing coffee beans. Some of them for families who have been coffee farmers for decades in Hawaii.
The gardens of Ali’i Kona Coffee are at 900-1100 feet elevations above sea level. Most afternoons, walking in our coffee farm, when you look straight up you can see billowing white clouds on the mountain side and clear blue sky on the ocean side. Periodic rains in the afternoon and the highest quality volcanic soil cultivates the perfect conditions for coffee plants to give us the happiest of cherries. The unforgettable aroma of the coffee blossoms in spring, the rich green color of young coffee beans in summer, the variety of colors of the beans that eventually turn into a symphony of red beans during summer and autumn, and the shiny leaves preparing to harbor the blossoms for next spring, all makes it worth the thought of that the first sip. Thirty years ago, for Ali it was “Love at First Sip!