Mong Shade-Dried - Wet Process - Education Lot - 2024

Origin

• 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

Tasting notes

Our first time featuring a coffee from Papua New Guinea, this Education Lot selection features a carefully dried wet processWashed 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. coffee representative of harvests from various producers in the Western Highlands who deliver their coffee to the Mong washing stationWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee.. We find an intriguing balance of sweet, savory, and earthy aromatics in this coffee, reminiscent of brown butter or roasted winter squash. In the cup, clementine-like 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 rich milk chocolate are supported by mildly sweet stone fruit flavors similar to prune or dried cherry.