Papua New Guinea - Wahgi Valley Kunjin, Washed
$7.56-$8.56 per pound
| Cupping Score | 84 |
| Fragrance/Aroma |
Caramel, pecan, raisin, nougat, Corn Chex, vanilla bean, earthy |
| Acidity |
Cooked apple, watermelon, cooked lemon |
| Flavor/Nuances |
Snickers bar, graham cracker, walnut, cocoa powder, almond milk, English breakfast tea |
| Sweetness |
Bakers cocoa, dark brown sugar |
| Body/Mouthfeel: | Full bodied, round |
| Finish/Aftertaste |
Clean, slightly drying, fresh red grape |
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In Our Roastery
Papua New Guinea is an origin we look to for medium and darker roasted single origin offerings. It also serves as a perfect blending component in our Espresso for Darker Roasts.
Coffees from the Indo-Pacific region tend to add tremendous body to blends and can have lower perceived acidity. When this offering runs out, we will start looking at surrounding origins in the same region for a similar cup, but Papua New Guinea is a unique origin and we always enjoy it when it’s in season.
In Your Lineup
Coffees from Papua New Guinea have really lovely dried fruit and chocolate-like notes as a medium roast offering. When you push the roast darker you will taste more warming spices and pipe tobacco with bittersweet cocoa. A medium target on our larger production machines here could be 405°- 415° while our darker roast levels settle around 419°- 423°, where we start to hear outliers of second crack.
Use our Profile
RoastPATH® profile recorded on an MCR500 while roasting a 400 gram batch.
| 0:00 | 400°F | Charge |
| 1:02 | Turning Point | |
| 5:02 | Green < Yellow | |
| 8:27 | First Crack | |
| 10:27 | 414°F | Drop |
Origin: Papua New Guinea
Region: Western Highlands
Farm: Various smallholders
Variety: Arusha, Bourbon, Typica
Process Method: Washed
Altitude: 1400-1900 masl
RoastPATH® ID: CI598-A02-0200
About
In the contemporary global coffee industry, Papua New Guinea is wholly unique both in how coffee is harvested and exported from the country. While there are some estates and plantations, most coffee production comes from smallholder farmers, each with around 1–2 hectares of land called “gardens” on which they grow small amounts of coffee along with whatever else a family or community might need for use or sale.
Kunjin is Cafe Import's mark used to describe coffees sourced from various smallholder producers in PNG's Western Highlands. Coffees are delivered in cherry form by producers who own an average of 1.5 hectares of land, with about 2,500 coffee trees per hectare maximum.