This is a classic Rwanda cup that can take a wide range of roasts, from light to dark. The dry fragrance has a balanced sweetness, brown sugar and molasses, brown bread and cinnamon, with dark spice tea aromas. Wet aromatics have rose-like floral notes, and caramelized cane sugar sweetness. This cup has lots of sweet mulling spices to it; dried orange peel, cinnamon bark, clove, and allspice.

It's very balanced at City+ through Full City roast; bittersweet roasty coffee flavors in proportion to fruit and aromatic accent notes. The body has a certain density and creamy texture to it, a buttery quality that lingers into the finish. All of this adds up to a character much more restrained than a bright, flashy Kenya coffee that has enough depth to discover new flavors with each brewing. Try some different roasts, keep tasting it, and you will find more to like in this lot.

The dry fragrance is mouth-watering in its sweetness, citrusy, with a light brown sugar scent. Full City Roast develops a very sweet milk chocolate quality, laced with orange notes. Adding hot water, the wet aromatic is piquant and delicately spiced with a fennel cookie sweetness and zesty, lemony-bright fruit. The cup taste has distinct brightness as well. There is that sugary, confectionary sweetness, accented with citrus and a touch of spice. The body is clear and light, which suits the high tonal range of the cup well.

We recommend light roasts to compliment the bright cup, and not to overshadow the flavors with a veil of darker roast taste. This is good up to Full City Roasts as well. The body is a little heavier at Full City, and the chocolate roast taste is suave, layered, backed with dark fruit tones. And if you like fairly bright espresso, and lighter body is okay with you, we have been pulling AMAZING single origin shots with this Bonko roasted to Full City.

The sweet scent from the Wollega is really remarkable. In the dry grounds there is abundant honey, and lemon wafer cookie. There are spice accents in the light roast, a bit of citrus rind, and just a hint menthol-eucalyptus as well. The wet aroma has cane sugar in the lighter roast levels, becoming increasingly caramelly approaching Full City roast. The cup is syrupy in texture, with sweet lemon and pear juice at City roast level. There is an amazing co-presence of sweetness, fruit notes, as well as ripe, bright-toned citrus to the cup. Lemon drop candy, that's a good description.

It quickly changes to a dark brown sugar sweetness and more caramelized notes at City+ and Full City roast levels. I would recommend City - City+, since I find the more tarry, dark, pungent finish at FC+ a little distracting. But in fact it works so well at the lighter roasts, why go darker?