Orange, pie crust and cedar aromas with deep savory, tart, and caramelized reduction flavors including guava, dewberry, roasted almond, peanut butter cookie, malted milk ball and injera bread. Reminiscent of both Indonesian wet-hulled and Indian coffee profiles.
Since 1969, the Vohora family has operated approximately 1000 acres of high altitude farmland located around the perimeter of the Ngorongoro Crater, due west of the city of Arusha, Tanzania. Their two family farms, Finagro and Edelweiss are now in their third generation and are currently operated by the sibling team Neel and Kavita Vohora.
Their SL-28 is cultivated at Finagro where they focus their efforts on innovative coffee varieties and transitional organic farming. The SL-28 variety has Bourbon lineage and hails from Kenya where it was identified back in the 1930’s. Alongside their multiple coffee varieties they also produce a sizable macadamia nut harvest each year.
Ngorongoro Crater holds is the world’s largest intact caldera (or volcanic lake) which is over 2000’ deep. In 1959, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ngorongoro is currently home to two prides of lions, sixteen critically endangered black rhinos, innumerable flamingos, zebras, elephants, Thompson’s gazelles, baboons, leopards and jackals and offers abundant grazing land for the Maasai Mara who tend their herds here. This is breathtakingly wild and beautiful land and a truly incredible place to grow coffee.
After repose, this coffee is sealed in Grain-Pro barrier packaging at origin and then sent on its way to our Roastery where we preserve the green coffee under hermetic seal until it is roasted as part of our Barrington Green Seal Program© .
The Finagro SL-28 is also available as a part of our Tanzania Tasting Pair.
NOTE: This coffee will be roasted and shipped only on Wednesday of each week.