Honeydew - Rwanda

Another ripper from the fine folk at Raw Material, this gem is a super tasty, bright and clean natural from one of the highest washing stations and coffee producing regions in Rwanda. Sourced through Muraho Trading Co, Raw Material’s Rwandan partners on the ground for nearly 10 years. It’s a partnership, that allows us to provide meaningful support to the producer communities, as they work together to increase production quality and enable the producers access to the specialty market.

Located at approximately 2400 metres above sea level where the surrounding producers cultivate their coffee between 2000 and 2400m, Shyira station is ideally situated to produce outstanding coffees. It’s largely thanks to this high altuítude that these beans are so choc full of juicy, intense fruit flavours.

For this particular lot, all the cherries were carefully hand sorted, to select only the ripest fruit, before being further floated and sorted, to remove all the unripe and undesirable coffee. The cherries are then cleaned and dried on raised beds for 30 days, in direct sunlight during the day, and covered overnight. The result is an outstanding natural, and a  coffee bursting with ripe fruit notes, sparkling acidity and a smooth buttery finish.