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Flavour creation

It’s around a one-hour drive from Mount Hagen airport to the Sigri Coffee Estate, located in the Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, the road is newly laid or well maintained, however, there is a section of road that passes by a pineapple market that slows the traffic to all but a crawl.

Our Land Rover Defender navigates a path between the crater-like potholes and cut-out ruts, past the line of pineapple vendors. Their faces filled with eager expressions.

“You can’t be serious,” I say. “There is no way a

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