Burundi Collines SWP Decaf

Cupping Notes: This decaf is all about chocolate bittersweets, with flavors of high % cacao bar, chocolate-malted grains, baking cocoa, chocolate muffin and more! Region: Kayanza ProvinceVariety: BourbonProcessing: Wet and Dry Process, then SWP Decaf Blend Description: This decaf is a custom blend of coffees from four different processing sites on four separate hills. "Colline" is French for "hill" and a regional demarcation of Burundi's many hilltop villages. The wet mills set up near these villages buy whole coffee cherry from local farmers and process the coffee at the mill, often kept separate by the days of purchase. The coffee is subjected to some of the highest scrutinies we see in any coffee-producing region. First, the whole cherry is culled through by hand to remove any over and underripe cherry, or other obvious, physical defects that will be processed separately as a lower grade. Then it is passed through the wet mill, typically disc de-pulpers or a de-mucilager, that ha