This is a bright coffee that lights up the palate from front to back. With interesting fruit (berry, citrus) flavors, alternating with spice. Kenyan coffees are as majestic as the morning African sun rising over the Savannah. These are powerful bright coffees that run the gamut from lemony to peppery from blackberry fruit to winey richness.

The Nguvu is a blend of coffees harvested from small-holder cooperatives the Murang’a district. The area is considered the traditional home of the Kikuyu tribe, which currently makes up 22% of the Kenyan population. Red, loamy soil and startlingly high altitudes contribute to a juicy, berry-flavored cup. Above, the Gatuya mill, one of the major contributors to the Nguvu blend.

• Cupping Notes: Cane sugar, intense stone fruit flavors, lemony, herbaceous florals, clean, juicy, complex acidity. Molasses, rich body. Even sweeter as it cools. Sparkling.
• Region: Murang’a
• Process: Fully washed, sun-dried on raised beds
• Grade: AA
• Varietal: SL28, Ruiru 11
• Altitude: 1750 masl