Papua New Guinea -Kimel Plantation

Sweet Maria's Coffee

Papua New Guinea occupies the Eastern half of the island it shares with the Indonesian provice of Irian (no organized coffee production originates from Irian) There can be a huge range of cups from Papua New Guinea, and the so-called Plantation coffees represent the cleaner character of the coffee produced on the island... more like a good Central American than part of the Indonesioan profile. The Organic PNG coffees have the more natural, rustic cup character. The plantations are larger farms that have their own coffee processing wet mills, so they are able to control all the variables of production better than the small farm "coffee gardens." Kimel is offered broadly in the US now vial the brokerage Royal, and is a solid coffee. But some lots have cupped very "green" and underdeveloped in character, others a little old. You have to buy your PNG coffees at the "peak of the harvest," not too soon or too late in the season. This is a fairly early arrival from the Kimel Plantation but it has no "green" character in the cup. It is a very lively coffee with a lot of top-end character, and with so much clean fruity notes it is like a cornucopia of ripe fruit. After a good rest of 72 hours, this cup has a marmalade fruitiness in it... really... I am not kidding! It also has body and balance: a soft buttery mouthfeel, and acidity - flavors in very harmonious balance in the cup. In general, PNG estate/plantation coffees from the East seem out of charcater with the other Indonesians, and more in the vein of the clean cup, wet-processed Centrals. If I could nominate a country from this part of the world that deserves to be elevated by a Cup of Excellence event, PNG is truly the one! And this Kimel would fair quite well in such a competition I say.

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