Rwanda Gitwe Peaberry

This is the peaberry selection, which are the small, nearly perfectly round beans. Peaberries occur when one of the two seeds inside the cherry fails to germinate. The remaining single coffee bean continues to mature, taking on the round shape of the cherry, rather than flattening out on one side. Pretty much every coffee shrub produces a few peaberries, and make up about 3% of the total yield.

Gitwe is a relatively newer washing station in Rwanda's southern Nyamasheke District. Gitwe sits at roughly 1800 meters above sea level, and the farms of the 800 outgrowers who deliver their coffee to Gitwe are situated between 1800 and 2000 meters. This is a fully washed/wet process coffee, meaning that after the coffee cherry is removed from the seed, the remaining sticky fruit layer (mucilage) is removed by fermenting in a tank for several hours.

Note:
Complex spiced cup profile, with aromatic notes of cinnamon spiced raw sugars and cola, deeply sweet, with kumquat and dark berry accents, and a finishing note like a long-steeped English Breakfast tea