IN THE CUP: Red wine, Blackberries & Turkish Delight

Origin: Nyabihu, Rwanda | Producer: The Shyira Washing Station | Variety: Red Bourbon |   Process: Natural | Altitude: 1500 - 2000 MASL | Harvest: 2024

Few coffees represent our roastery better than the beautiful coffees of Shyira. This is the 6th year we have purchased coffee from this washing station and it is something we look forward to doing every year. Our fantastic import partners, Raw Material, have, alongside the locally based Muharo Trading Company, have done amazing work on the ground in Shyira to improve quality and infrastructure. The coffees produced by this partnership are nothing short of incredible and, in our humble opinion, some of the best coffee being produced in the world today.

The station itself was built in 2017 in the Nyabihu region of Rwanda. Situated 2000 metres above sea level it collects coffee cherry from local producers that live as high as 2400 masl - some of the if not the highest grown coffee in Rwanda. This combined with the plentiful access to water thanks to the river that runs through the base of the station lead to unrivalled cup quality in the area. The coffees are clean and refined with a cup profile that is both complex and at the same time familiar and delicious.

This is the natural lot produced by the station this harvest. You can expect a rich cup with notes of blueberries and wine gums with a pleasant red apple like acidity.

*Our coffee is freshly roasted each week and orders are dispatched on Tuesday and Thursday for orders received by 12pm the day before.