SIGRI PEABERRY

Producer: Sigri Estate 
Country: Papua New Guinea
Region: Wahgi Valley, Wester Highlands
Varietals: Peaberry 
MASL: 1550 - 1600 masl
Process: Washed 
Tasting Notes: Lemon Custard / Sassafras

Coffees bearing the Sigri name are grown at a minimum of 1550 masl. Sigri Coffees are washed Arabica coffees, and undergo a rigorous wet factory process. Quality control begins in the field; each and every coffee cherry is hand-picked, carefully checked for uniformity, and must be red and fully ripe. This attention to detail when picking the coffee cherry allows for the correct balance or sugar and acid within the cherry. The selected cherry is then pulped on the day of picking which is ore rare in Papua New Guinea and the greater Indonesian region. The vast majority of coffee beans exported from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia are comprised of cherry that is aggregated from thousands of smallholder farmers who sell their cherry to cherry buyers who then turn around and sell this to mills. This Lack of control over the picking, the time between picking and de-pulping, and the rest of the processing is why Indonesian and PNG green coffee beans are often not traceable and the quality often fails to meet American specialty coffee market standards.     

All green coffee goes through a certain amount of fermentation regardless of if it is a washed, honey or natural processed coffee. At Sigri Estate, this process takes place over a period of three days and is divided every 24 hours by a washing - but unlike other green coffees coming out of PNG or other parts of Indonesia, the Sigri process follows this by total immersion in water for an additional day. After the 24 hours of submersion, the green coffee goes through a careful conditioning of 21 days followed by hulling, grading, color sorting and finally hand sorting. Our Kula process coffees require double color-sorts and double hand-sorts. Each of these steps combined with rigorous quality control before picking produces some of the best green coffee beans from Papua New Guinea. 

All grades are continuously sample-roasted and cupped both at the estate level and by our quality control team in Chicago. This provides a final check on the green bean quality during processing, before shipment, and upon landing at out US warehouses.