Kenya Nyeri Gichathaini AA

Varietal: Nyeri Gichathaini AA

Cultivar: Wet Process SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11

Tasting Notes: Raw Sugar, Lemonade, Peach

Description: The dry fragrance has a dark and complex sweetness, and clearly fruited aromatics, with suggestions of stone fruits and green melon, and sweet cane sugar syrup underneath. The wet aroma produces more complex sugar smells than fruit, a caramelized sugar sweetness smells potent, vanilla laced in, with hints of apricot, black tea, and sweet spice. The cup has impressive body and sweetness, fruit nectar-like in feel, which highlights some of the fruit flavors found in the cup. Light roasts showed the most cup complexity, and fairly well integrated into the underlying sweetness when brewed. Unrefined sugar notes were the first flavors I picked up on in the hot cup, caramel, raw sugars with molasses. Gichathaini cools to citrus accent notes, though not too stark or grabby. Flavors hint at tangerine, and lemonade sweetened with brown sugar, along with accents of stone fruit, melon, vanilla, and ending in a very sweet finish. The cup aroma shows delicate aspects of fruit blossoms with a light accent of lemon. The acidity is moderate and lemony at first, shifting to juicy apricot, with a bit of tannic black tea in the aftertaste.