Winter Blend

Name: Winter Blend
Availability: BackOrder

Intensity

Medium

Tasting Notes:

Gingerbread • Marmalade • Raisin

Grind

Whole Bean

Cafetiere

Filter

AeroPress

Espresso

Size

250g

1kg

Winter Blend is full of fruit, sweet spice and richness. Gingerbread spice, tangy seville marmalade and sticky raisin sweetness meld together to create a festive pudding in the cup.

Rwanda Karambi is a washed red bourbon grown a few miles from Lake Kivu, Western Rwanda. El Salvador Noruega is a natural red bourbon from Fincas Los Naranjos in Ahuachapan. When blended both coffees' citrus, deep sugar and sweet spice profiles are enhanced.

Winter Blend will warm your cockles with the festive flavours we all love at this time of year.

Components:

50% - Rwanda Karambi
50% - El Salvador Noruega

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Tasting
Processing

Rwanda & El Salvador

Our Winter Blend shows off the adaptability of the red bourbon varietal. A natural from El Salvador and a washed from Rwanda combine to delicious effect.

Sweet-spiced & Rich

Warm spices, caramelised citrus and sticky raisin flavours combine for a festive cupful of winter cheer.

Washed & Natural

Ripe coffee cherries are picked, and sorted to remove any defects. They then pass through a depulper, where the flesh of the cherry is removed, leaving behind a sticky mucilage layer. Next, the beans are fermented, and the mucilage layer breaks down, leaving a clean coffee bean behind.

The natural process requires skill and attention to get right. The ripe coffee cherry is picked and left out to ferment in the sun, turned regularly so that no mould grows. The enzymatic reactions that occur here sink right into the seed (or bean), and leave you with a coffee that's full of funkiness and complexity.

The process historically was common in places with less water available, but you'll see it all over the world these days, in producer's quests to find wild results in their lots.