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Blackberry · Rhubarb · Vanilla Ice Cream
Variety/Species: SL28, Ruiru 11
Process: Washed
Region: Kiambu, Kenya
Exporter/Importer: Melbourne Coffee Merchants
Back in the early 1960s, the Karugondo family planted their first 100 coffee trees in the foothills of the Aberdare mountains. Today the land is split between seven siblings, and Ndocha is the largest of those plots. If you’ve had our Muhathi Estate, you’ve already met the family.
Ndocha is run by three of the siblings. Geoffrey handles the business, Danson and his family live on the farm and look after the trees, and Peris runs the wet mill their father built in 1987. The SL28 trees were planted by their grandfather, and they have been regrown from the same stumps ever since.
Each sibling picks and processes on alternate days, so every farm’s coffee stays its own lot. It’s a harder and more expensive way to do things, and you can taste the care in the cup.
This lot is a peaberry, where a single round bean forms inside the cherry instead of the usual two. There are fewer of them, and they’re often sweeter and more concentrated.
Thank you, Geoffrey, Danson and Peris.
This coffee was imported by our partners at Melbourne Coffee Merchants. You can read more about the producers here.
Blackberry · Rhubarb · Vanilla Ice Cream
Variety/Species: SL28, Ruiru 11
Process: Washed
Region: Kiambu, Kenya
Exporter/Importer: Melbourne Coffee Merchants
Back in the early 1960s, the Karugondo family planted their first 100 coffee trees in the foothills of the Aberdare mountains. Today the land is split between seven siblings, and Ndocha is the largest of those plots. If you’ve had our Muhathi Estate, you’ve already met the family.
Ndocha is run by three of the siblings. Geoffrey handles the business, Danson and his family live on the farm and look after the trees, and Peris runs the wet mill their father built in 1987. The SL28 trees were planted by their grandfather, and they have been regrown from the same stumps ever since.
Each sibling picks and processes on alternate days, so every farm’s coffee stays its own lot. It’s a harder and more expensive way to do things, and you can taste the care in the cup.
This lot is a peaberry, where a single round bean forms inside the cherry instead of the usual two. There are fewer of them, and they’re often sweeter and more concentrated.
Thank you, Geoffrey, Danson and Peris.
This coffee was imported by our partners at Melbourne Coffee Merchants. You can read more about the producers here.
