Wonderstate Coffee
Kenya Peaberry Kaliluni Cooperative
Roaster Location: | Viroqua, Wisconsin |
Coffee Origin: | South-central Kenya. |
Roast Level: | Medium-Light |
Agtron: | 50/75 |
Est. Price: | NA |
Review Date: | August 2008 |
Aroma: | 8 |
Acidity: | 8 |
Body: | 8 |
Flavor: | 8 |
Aftertaste: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
Soft, sweet-toned aroma: crisp black cherry, honey, a hint of flowers. In the cup rich acidity, syrupy mouthfeel, pungent but lush: dry berry, hints of flowers, flowering grass, herb. The dry finish remains on the rich side of astringent.
Notes
Despite national coffee leadership marked by confusion and recent social disorder, Kenya cooperatives continue to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. This sample consists entirely of peaberries, a kind of bean that results when the coffee fruit develops only a single, oval bean rather than the usual pair of flat-sided beans. Peaberries produce a somewhat different (often better) cup than normal beans from the same crop, from which they may or may not be separated during grading. Wonderstate Coffee, formerly Kickapoo Coffee, is an award-winning roaster based in rural Wisconsin known for their commitment to guaranteeing higher pay for farmers and being the country’s first 100% solar powered roastery. Visit https://wonderstate.com/ for more information.
Who Should Drink It
A balanced but assertive Kenya, pungently acidy yet roundly sweet-toned.
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This review originally appeared in the August, 2008 tasting report: Coffees of Kenya: Still Struggling, Still Great