Description
New crop PNG! A wonderful new offering for us, sourced through our relationship with Carpenter Estates. This is basically small holder coffee based around the Kindeng wet mill. They ran a project a couple years ago similar, called the Sigri A/X highlands, this is virtually the same idea but with peaberries and centered around a different sister estate approx. 15 miles away from Sigri.
A wonderful screen and silky smooth tastes. A beautiful and fresh offering PNG fans are bound to love. We have the new crop of the Sigri/Bunum/Kindeng Carpenter Estate coffees lined up, but looking like mid/end of January arrival this season.
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Tasting Notes:
A wonderful cup from medium to dark roasts, silky smooth and clean. Lower acidity, fuller bodied, with good sweetness and balance. Chocolaty cup profile overall but jazzed up with some very cool nutty and spicy herbal accents. Before 2nd crack roasts, one can balance in some hints of melon and fruity acidity giving greater depth of flavor and more sweetness. Light roasts were interesting but did not have the chocolaty kick of medium to dark roasts.
Roasting Notes:
Good almost anywhere – I would still avoid real light roasts for you will find a bit of raw acidity and underdeveloped darker tones. City plus to as dark as you want to go. To see it shine, keep it before 2nd crack. Dark roasts will impress dark roast fans but will burn out many tones that make this cup pretty stellar.
The smallholders for Kinmuga coffees are located in the southern area of the Waghi valley, bordering the Anglimp and Kindeng districts. The Waghi valley is known to have been “the food bowl of PNG” for thousands of years. Surrounded by an extinct volcano, the sandy and loam soils are exceptionally fertile. Moreover the network coffee plots are all close to the Wara Tuman, a large river running through the valley bringing in its stream nutrients from the highest volcanic mountains.The cherries are sold at the Kindeng wet mill, where they are pulped, fermented, and processed to parchment. The parchment then is brought to the Kagamuga dry mill in Hagen. Since 2018, Kindeng wet mill has had a waste water digester, which enables an environmental friendly pulping and fermentation. The unique combination of peoples’ commitment, the natural environment and a high altitude tropical weather (1,600 meters above sea level) give these coffees their specific cup characteristics
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