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Gavagai

Kenya AA Gatomboya

Roaster Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Coffee Origin: South-central Kenya.
Roast Level: Medium
Agtron: 51/69
Est. Price: NT $700/8 ounces
Review Date: June 2012
Aroma: 9
Acidity: 9
Body: 8
Flavor: 9
Aftertaste: 7

Blind Assessment

Crisply sweet-toned, balanced, subtly complex. Cocoa, plum, peach, hints of dusk flowers and pungent cedar in aroma and cup. Gently bright, juicy acidity; light but silky mouthfeel. The layered, delicate flavor fades slightly in the dryish finish.

Notes

Despite grower discontent and urban encroachment on prime coffee lands, Kenya continues to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. This lot was produced entirely from trees of Kenya’s premier varieties of Arabica, the great, Bourbon-related SL28 and SL34. Gavagai is a Taiwanese one-location, in-store roaster specializing in siphon-brewed single-origin coffees and single-origin espressos.

Who Should Drink It

Kenya devotees. A finely nuanced, quietly original variation of the dry yet sweet, crisply layered floral and fruit Kenya cup.

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This review originally appeared in the June, 2012 tasting report: Coffees of Taiwan

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Kenneth Davids is editor, chief writer and co-founder of Coffee Review. His latest book, 21st Century Coffee: A Guide is an unprecedentedly thorough survey of specialty coffee in all of its aspects, authoritative yet engaging. He has been involved with coffee since the early 1970s and has published three earlier books on coffee, including the influential Home Roasting: Romance and Revival, now in its second edition, and Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies in five editions..

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