Papua New Guinea Arufa Natural

Arufa AX Full Natural

Lot Name: Arufa Producer and/or Mill: Monpi Coffee / Kindeng Wet Mill — 600 smallholders around the Kagamuga Dry Mill

Location: Arufa, Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea

Altitude: 1,520–1,770 masl

Varietal: Blue Mountain, Arusha, Mundo Novo, Bourbon

Processing: Full Natural Drying: Raised Beds Taste Profile: raspberry, vanilla, toasted sesame, brown sugar

This is a rare full natural from the highlands of Jiwaka, made possible by our long-time partners at Monpi Coffee. PNG naturals don't come around often, and this one is layered, jammy, and quietly elegant.

The Arufa Story Papua New Guinea holds one of the best-preserved typica lineage variety sets in the world — a genetic inheritance that took root between the World Wars, when Australian settlers established estates across the Eastern, Chimbu, Jiwaka, and Western highlands. Today, coffee remains the first and often only source of cash income for hundreds of thousands of rural smallholders. The Arufa lot is grown by roughly 600 of those producers, organized around the Kagamuga Dry Mill in Jiwaka Province, on volcanic loam between 1,520 and 1,770 masl.

This lot is the result of a special collaboration with Monpi Coffee, the miller and exporter based in Goroka and Mt. Hagen. Working with the Kindeng Wet Mill, Monpi sorted and separated exemplary cherry before depulping, then dried it whole on raised beds — a slow, full natural process that takes nearly a month in Jiwaka's cool highland air. The coffee was then trucked to Monpi's Kagamuga dry mill for hulling, and finally prepared for export in Goroka.

Beyond processing innovations like this one, Monpi runs Sustainability Management Service (SMS), a team that trains farmers year-round on agronomy, climate adaptation, gender equality, and youth inclusion. The Kagamuga mill also operates a nursery supplying new plantings to surrounding farmer networks, securing the long-term productivity of these highland communities.

This Papua New Guinean coffee from the Arufa region of Jiwaka Province is a full natural dried on raised beds, yielding a cup of raspberry and vanilla up front, with toasted sesame and brown sugar carrying the finish.