Papua New Guinea | Lamana | Typica, Bourbon & Arusha Natural
Product details
| Management number | 253652565 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$5.20 | Model Number | 253652565 | ||
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Tasting Profile
Dried dates, plum, prune and red grape - a sweet, winey natural with a syrupy body. Cofi-Com cupped this arrival at 84.5. Natural-process PNG coffees are rare, and this one makes a fruit-forward espresso that turns into a rich, dried-fruit-and-chocolate milk drink.
Lamana Natural Microlot
Lamana is a small, carefully separated natural microlot from the Lahamenegu wet mill in the Eastern Highlands. Unusually for Papua New Guinea, where most coffee is washed by smallholders at home, the mill buys in ripe cherry from long-standing smallholder suppliers, which lets it control quality and experiment with processing. Only the ripest cherries are selected, then dried whole on raised beds for several weeks and turned regularly before resting in conditioning bins until shipment.
Region
The Eastern Highlands around Goroka is one of PNG's oldest and most important coffee regions. Coffee here is grown at around 1,550 metres in steep, fertile volcanic valleys, almost entirely by smallholder families in village garden plots, with little or no chemical input.
About the Varieties
PNG's highland coffee descends largely from Jamaican Blue Mountain Typica seed brought to the country in the 1930s, alongside Bourbon and Arusha selections. These traditional tall varieties are prized for their sweetness and complexity, though lower yielding than modern hybrids.
Natural processing amplifies that sweetness, layering dried fruit and wine-like notes onto PNG's naturally heavy body - in this lot, dates, prune and red grape.
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