Green coffee sourcing desk — Jakarta, Indonesia

Natural Process Coffee Flavor: Fruity, Sweet, and Wine-Like Notes

Natural process coffee flavor from whole cherries drying on raised beds

Natural process coffee flavor is usually fruit-forward, syrupy-sweet, and fuller in body, with berry, jam, tropical-fruit, chocolate, or wine-like impressions rather than a crisp, tea-like profile. The character begins before roasting: whole coffee cherries dry with their skin and pulp intact, allowing sugar metabolism and fermentation to influence flavor precursors in the green coffee. Still, […]