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Mbare Washed x Natural Set
Rwanda
Taste the Difference!
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These coffees were processed at Rwamatamu’s Mbare washing station, situated in Muhanga, Southern Province. Rwamatamu is a family-owned coffee producer that was established in 2015 by husband and wife team Rutaganda Gaston and Mukantwaza Laeticia.
Community is a huge focus for Rwamatamu, in Mbare they run a Youth Association for locals age 18-35 to encourage interest of future generations in coffee farming. In 2024 Rwamatamu purchased three hectares of land for the group and began supporting its members with training, seedlings, and equipment.
This year the Rwamatamu team made the decision to sell their original site in Nyamasheke and move all of their processing operations to their newer facilities in Mbare, the farm these two coffees origin from.
Mbare is much closer to the dry mill in Kigali, meaning that a lot of money, risk, and time can be saved on transportation of coffee ready for milling. Mbare’s facilities have the capacity to produce three times the amount of coffee that the Nyamasheke station could.
Washed x Natural Sets
one coffee: two processes
We're excited to share both a Natural & Washed processed coffee that both originate from Mbare - two coffees that share similar characteristics but are wholly shaped into unique tasting experiences due to the differences in how they have been processed.
introducing the natural
mbare lot 5 - natural
This Natural Mbare lot we think tastes like cherry cola, blackcurrant juice - we're a big fan of how fruity forward the body of this coffee is! Rwamamatu have introduced a new Natural processing technique this season.
After sorting, instead of laying the coffee cherries out to dry as a even layer on large patios, instead cherries are pushed into small piles and then covered with netting.
After 48 hours, the netting is removed and the cherries are spread out to resume regular drying. The theory is that by grouping the cherries together promotes a quicker fermentation reaction, with the extra heat contained in the pile promotion the growth of flavour-building bacteria.
Introducing the washed
mbare lot 4 - washed
This coffee is full of lots of sweetness, we think like Dulce de Leche!, it shares the same blackcurrant flavours as it's Natural counterpart - but here it's far more juicy and high acidity.
Best Of Rwanda is an annual specialty coffee competition and auction showcasing the country’s finest coffee. The coffees being judged are the best that Rwanda has to offer, and are put through three rounds of cupping under expert scrutiny, then ranked based on their scoring.
Rwamatamu came 3rd overall in Best of Rwanda 2024. And in 2025 came second out of over 300 entrants, scoring 90.81 with their Mbare washed lot (this coffee!)Notably, their coffee is the only washed lot in the top 14 coffees, sitting 2.98 points above other lots in the washed category.
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