Peru Organic Honey Guardian del Bosque Gesha

This is our third, and final Gesha coffee from Guardian del Bosque. It's a honey processed lot, which means the coffee seeds were dried with some of the fruit flesh still intact. Honeys are often fruited, though less-so than a full dry process coffee. We found this lot showed delicious dried fruit and tropical accents, with a fragrant aroma that delivers some of the perfumed floral aspects that we attribute to Gesha coffee. The grinds were accented by notes of pulpy orange and cooked pear, with soft wine-like accents, and raw sugars backing things up. Floral highlights begin to take shape in the wet aroma, and fruity aspects brought to mind fragrant flowers like gardenia and rose. There's also a nice fruited dimension layered with attractive bittersweet notes. City roasts brew fragrant flavors both fruited and floral, with something resinous and intriguing as it cools. Cup flavors have a retronasal element that draws out perfumed profiles of tropical fruits, passion fruit and guava, as well as some more rustic dried fruit types, like apricot and date. The aroma also shows floral hints of sweet pea and jasmine pearls, along with a complex note of amber resin. The acidity is fairly integrated into the cup profile, more rounded than sharp, like sweet orange. Best to stick to light roast here, City/City+ maximum. It's a very sweet cup at medium roast levels too, but loses much of the volatile aromatics that make it so unique.