We taste: strawberry-rhubarb jam, toasted nut

Farmers: various smallholder farmers
Region: Huye Mountain/Huye District
Processing Method: Natural
Elevation: 1,900 msl
Varieties: Red Bourbon

Huye Mountain Coffee is a private washing station established in 2011 to provide farmers in the region with access to international markets and buyers of specialty coffees. Around 1,330 producers deliver their freshly picked coffee cherries to 26 collecting stations around the Huye community, where a truck visits daily to collect the farmers' coffee during harvest season.

This unique coffee comes from the Huye Mountain in the Huye District, in Southern Rwanda and grown above 1,900 meters. The natural process employed at Huye Mountain involves meticulous cherry selection and hand sorting prior to drying. Drying is done on raised African beds for between 14 and 28 days, depending on the weather, and the coffee is turned regularly.

This particular lot is comprised of 100% red bourbon variety. Coffee cherries are processed following the Rwandan standard, with cherries being sent on a luxurious dip in a floating tank for sorting, followed by an 8-12 hour dry fermentation, followed by a second round of sorting by weight using water shoots, followed by a 24 hour soak, followed by hand-washing and hand-sorting, and they end up relaxing in parchment on raised drying beds.