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Green Peppercorns Single Estate From Cameroon

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Green Peppercorns From Cameroon Standard 40g £5.75
Green Peppercorns Single Estate From Cameroon

Steenbergs Penja Pepper includes these green peppercorns are single estate grown on the Penja Estate in Cameroon.


The Penja Green peppercorn - Piper nigrum - is picked while the berries are not yet fully mature and the oxidisation process is stopped by blanching the green berries in boiling hot water.  The Penja green pepper berries are bright lime green in colour with a light, faint peppery aroma and the taste starts with a clean, slightly sweet flavour but this builds up quickly to a bright, bitingly hot and vivacious heat that lingers at the back of the throat and on the tongue.


The Penja Valley in Cameron is a great place for horticulture, a remote valley with only 30,000 people living there.  The terroir is a fertile volcanic soil and the climate is ideal for tropical plants, like pepper vines – loads of humidity and rainfall and masses of hot sun.  It’s a steamy, sweaty place.  Like a niche estate wine, only 18 tonnes are grown on this 100 hectares plantation and no chemicals are used in the growing, processing or post-harvest processes, so while not organic they are free from nasties.


The rich volcanic soil creates flavours and aromas that are soft and refined with a delicate musky, mysterious perfume and lots of hot, African heat that lingers bitingly at the back of the throat. 


More mystery and a bit less refined than Indian peppers but full of great joyful heat.


Steenbergs Penja Pepper is another specialist spice that Axel Steenberg has had great fun tracking down and is only sold to our web customers, and we don't sell to trade.

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