Lampung Sumatra Indonesian Black Peppercorns have pungent, chile pepper like heat, yet not bitter. They are high in essential oil as a result of shade-grown vines protected from sun and wind by tropical trees. The farmers of Kota Bumi pick only the most mature of peppercorns, coming back twice daily to their small holdings over the period of a 3-month harvest, sometimes reaping no more than a few hundred grams of ripe fruit. Believed to be the very greatest black pepper on earth. Planted in Kota Bumi, Indonesia the "Center of the Earth".