Coffee Description
A full-sensory experience, sweet floral aromatics dance the light fantastic with cranberry and rooisbos teah sweetened with honey and a side of molasses cookie just for good measure. Full-bodied. Smooth. Totally inspiring.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Washed
Elevation
2011 masl
About Nyampinga Cooperative of Rwanda
This coffee is 100% produced by women and is decorated with a story of overcoming adversity and prejudice. The word "Nyampinga" translates to "Beautiful women, inside and out." These exceptional women of southern Rwanda have created a coffee that feels good, tastes good and does good. Since 2013, the women of Nyampinga have received training in agronomy, market access, and quality control from Sustainable Growers. The result of the farmers' hard work and enhanced knowledge of coffee production has been a resounding improvement in cup quality--so much so that Nyampinga coffees are among finest available in all of Rwanda.
One driver of better agronomic practices has been a unique program called Premium Sharing Rewards, which rewards farmers with points for attending trainings and implementing their learnings on the farm. With these points, farmers can purchase rewards from a catalog of items they have collectively chosen. The program was developed as a way to incentivize farmers in a respectful way to encourage further training and technical assistance, and implement those skills to produce better crops.
Drink Coffee Do Stuff
DRINK COFFEE DO STUFF is a specialty coffee roastery in Truckee, CA, conceived at 12,000 ft on the Saas-Fee glacier of the Swiss Alps. The vision for DCDS is rooted in the professional snowboarding career of founder Nick Visconti, who traveled the world crushing the snowboarding circuit and drinking coffee from Switzerland to Patagonia. This roving lifestyle birthed an intentional roasting company centered on the intersection of extraordinary coffee and extraordinary life.
Founded in 2017 in Visconti's hometown of Truckee, DCDS is distinguished by its focus on 'altitude coffee'—coffee grown on hill and mountain slopes throughout the equatorial zone and roasted at 6000 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains—which results in a sweeter, more subtle cup. Relationships matter too at DCDS, not just because Visconti marks his friendships in coffee cups and boards, but because they are the foundation of a life lived well.
We all have the ability to live our own versions of an extraordinary life, and 2019 Good Food Award-winner DCDS celebrates this truth. As Visconti says, "We wear our hats backwards, live our lives forwards, and ride our boards downwards!"
