KENYA Thunguri AA – Filter

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  30

Located just outside Karatina in Kenya’s central highlands, Thunguri Factory has been operating since 1962. It is part of the Kibirigwi Farmers’ Cooperative Society and receives cherries from over 1,000 smallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. farmers in the surrounding villages. Most producers farm between 200–300 trees on small plots intercropped with subsistence crops. Coffees are grown above 1,600 meters, where cool temperatures and rich volcanic soil contribute to slow cherry development and refined cup structure. Thunguri uses traditional washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. processing: cherries are sorted, pulped, fermented overnight, soaked, and dried on raised beds for 14 days. This lot is made up primarily of SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. and SL34SL34SL28's sibling selection, also from Kenya's Scott Labs. Slightly less celebrated but hardier, with a similar juicy, complex cup.. These cultivars are known for their clarity, acidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it., and depth. In the cup, expect blackcurrant, citrus, and floral notes, with a crisp, tea-like finish—a standout expression of Kenya’s high-elevation terroirTerroirBorrowed from wine: the way a place — soil, altitude, climate, even neighboring crops — expresses itself in the cup, independent of variety and process..