bunum wo

PRODUCER: Sigri Estate
COUNTRY: Papua New Guinea
REGION: Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands
VARIETALS: Peaberry
MASL: 1500
PROCESS: Washed
TASTING NOTES: root beer & molasses

Bunum Wo is a washed Arabica coffee and undergoes a rigorous wet factory process which yields a spectacular result. Quality control begins in the field, as cherries are hand-picked and carefully checked for uniformity. These must be red and fully ripe, which allows for the correct balance of sugar and acid within the cherry. This selected cherry is then pulped on the day of picking.

A fermentation process follows, a period of three days broken every 24 hours by washing – but unlike most other coffees, the Sigri process follows this by total immersion in water for a further day, which creates a superior coffee. Careful conditioning of 21 days is followed by hulling, grading, color sorting, and finally hand sorting. This, combined with rigorous quality control before packing, produces one of the best coffees from Papua New Guinea.

Benchmark Coffee Traders distributes top-grade green coffees from Papua New Guinea, including Bunum Wo. Benchmark has direct ties with coffee producers in Papua New Guinea and they work closely with these producers to bring their beautiful green coffees to specialty coffee roasters in America. We are the beneficiary of all of this hard work from farm to importer and we are honored to have this coffee in our lineup.