Description
Sweet, juicy and boasts notes of jasmine and vanilla. Clean cup with a good body. Awarded a cupping score of 88.75.
Country: RWANDA
District: Ruisizi district, South west Rwanda
Altitude: 1700 meters
Processing: Fully washed and sun-dried on African raised beds
Owners: A co-operative of 30 members
Details: Directly Traded, Uncertified Organic
Background:
Inzovu is 30 member co-operative. The Co op calls themselves the ‘Urengerekawa’ or in English ‘Let Us Protect Coffee’ and is situated in Nyakabuye of the Ruisizi district, south west of Rwanda. Sitting 1700m high above sea level, Nyakabuye is a place destined for yielding high quality coffee: it has a cool climate without the frost and consistent rainfall.
The coolest thing about Urengerekawa is that all profit, land and labour are shared equally among its members. Taking care of 200 to 4000 coffee trees each, the guys from Urengerekawa are passionate about coffee and take pride in the important role coffee has in maintaining Rwanda’s economic stability. Founded in 2007, by 2009 they had built their own washing station where the coffee is fully washed and sun dried on raised beds and are now exported globally by the RWC (Rwandan trading co.)
