Coffee Description
Rwanda Nyarusiza is back! This year’s crop is bright and sweet with notes of lemon, lime, black tea and a hint of spice. Acidity is juicy and balance, with velvety body and lingering dark chocolate in the aftertaste.
lim
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Washed
Elevation
1600-1900 masl
Region
Ginkongoro
About Smallholder producers of Rwanda
Nyarusiza is one of two washing stations operated by Bufcafe, and the force behind Bufcafe is Epiphanie Muhirwa. Widowed in the country’s civil war, she started Bufcafe in the year 2000 and has become a living symbol of Rwanda’s economic recovery through specialty coffee production. Bufcafe’s dry mill in in Karaba village, and these days, Epiphanie’s son, Sam Muhirwa, oversees daily operations for the family business.
Approximately 7000 smallholders/ five local coffee cooperatives in the Gikongoro prefecture bring their coffees to the Buf Cafe stations to be processed. The Muhira family pays good wages, sharing surplus profits with contributors, and sowing back into the communities around the washing stations. This makes such things as schooling for children, medical care, and livestock more accessible to the farmers, improving their quality of life while helping to achieve coffee quality that places in the Rwanda Cup of Excellence competitions year after year.
Ginkongoro, Rwanda
One Village Coffee
Inspired by the courage and resiliency of coffee farmers worldwide, One Village Coffee was established in 2007 to bring together farmers, roasters, and coffee lovers to cultivate community and share in the joy of exceptional coffee—one cup at a time.
WE ARE ONE VILLAGE
