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Burundi

Umutumba

Umutumba

La Cabra
Regular price $20.00
Regular price Sale price $20.00
250 g
Taste notes

This cup is delicate black tea balanced by dried fruit sweetness in the cup, reminiscent of raisin and apricot.

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The Long Miles Project, founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson, began work in 2013, aiming to raise the bar of specialty coffees coming out of Burundi. The project works with more than 5,000 individual coffee farmers living near three central washing stations, Bukeye, opened in 2013, Heza, from 2014 and Ninga, which had its first harvest in 2020.

There are several reasons why producing speciality coffee in Burundi is an incredibly difficult task. There’s the incredibly unstable political situation, where government can change rules on coffee prices and value chain seemingly overnight, the practical challenge of being a small landlocked country attempting to export coffee by sea freight, the constant threat of unrest. But through it all the Carlson family have managed to establish themselves as producers and exporters of consistently delicious coffees, all the while providing some semblance of stability to the lives of smallholder farmers that surround their washing stations in the northern Kayanza Province, near the border with Rwanda.

  • Variety

    Bourbon
  • Processing

    Washed
  • Altitude

    1900m.a.s.l.
  • Region

    Kayanza

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