Volcanica Coffee
Tanzania Peaberry
Roaster Location: | Suwanee, Georgia |
Coffee Origin: | Ngorongoro Crater region, northern Tanzania |
Roast Level: | Medium-Light |
Agtron: | 53/71 |
Est. Price: | $17.99/16 ounces |
Review Date: | June 2021 |
Aroma: | 9 |
Acidity/Structure: | 9 |
Body: | 9 |
Flavor: | 9 |
Aftertaste: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
Sweetly pungent, floral and crisply fruit-toned. Black currant, pink grapefruit zest, honeysuckle, baking chocolate, oak in aroma and cup. Sweetly savory in structure with light-footed acidity; very creamy, ebullient mouthfeel. The sweet finish leads with notes of pink grapefruit zest and baking chocolate with hints of honeysuckle.
Notes
This coffee tied for the highest rating in a cupping of African Great Lakes coffees for Coffee Review’s June 2021 report. Utz-certified. This sample consists entirely of peaberries, a kind of bean that results when the coffee fruit develops a single, oval bean rather than the usual pair of flat-sided beans. Peaberries produce a somewhat different cup than normal beans from the same crop, from which they may or may not be separated during grading. Volcanica Coffee is a family-owned business in Suwanee, Georgia whose roots go back two generations to coffee farming in Costa Rica. For more information, visit www.volcanicacoffee.com.
Bottom Line
A Kenya-like Tanzania cup — richly pungent, resonantly sweet-savory, layered and complex.
Explore Similar Coffees
Click here for more reviews from Volcanica Coffee
Click here for more information about coffees from Tanzania
This review originally appeared in the June, 2021 tasting report: African Great Lakes Coffees: Quality in the Face of Adversity