Rwanda Rubavu Rwinyoni

Rwinyoni is a well-balanced cup that yields mouth pleasing acidity and with sweetness that's intense and complex. Light roasts have a sweet scent honey and caramel, with a delicate splash of brewed black tea. The wet aroma has a nice intensity to it, with a fragrant note of buttery caramel sauce, and cinnamon tea. The cup sweetness is very convincing, even in lighter City roasts where there's often a tradeoff of well developed sweetness for acidity. That is not the case with Rwinyoni, and tasty flavor profiles of caramel, unrefined sugars work to build out the sweet base coffee flavor profile and ultimately leads to a rounded, sweet finish. On top of all that, subtle accent notes fill out the cup flavors with accents of Sencha black tea, and woody cinnamon sticks. Full City roasts brew a cup with more body, and substantial roast tones outline profiles of chocolate and caramel confections, like a caramel filled dark chocolate bar. There's also a dimension of dark fruit at Full City/FC+ that was missing at City. Nothing over the top, but rather, a subtle grape accent note behind the dark chocolate. There's no doubt in my mind that Full City and Full City+ roasts will make delectable espresso, but I have not given it a run through my machine just yet.