We love coffee from Kenya for its intensity of flavor, and this lot from Gichathaini is no exception. Bright and vibrant rhubarb hits you up front, and is balanced with the sweetness of golden raisins. This is all wrapped in the fruit-forward sweetness of bergamot, an excellent a light, vibrant, and adventurous single-origin coffee.

This new Kenyan coffee comes to us from the Gichathaini coffee factory. They are one of three washing stations that comprise the Gikanda Farmers Cooperative Society (F.C.S.), in the Mathira West district of Nyeri. The factory itself is owned by the farmers who deliver their cherries here, which allows them to make elective decisions regarding factory representation and management. Each day, deliveries are blended together, limiting each producer’s traceability, but allowing hundreds to thousands of smallholding producers to sell their cherries. This creates the best representation of the Nyeri region’s terroir that we know you’ll enjoy.

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