Uganda Maliba

Origin

• 🇺🇬 Uganda

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  30
• Clean
  20
• Funky
  20

Name: Maliba Producer: 100 SmallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. farmers Origin: Maliba, Rwenzori Mountains Varietal: SL14, SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. Altitude: 1600-1800 metres above sea level Process: NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. Flavours: Cherry, Grapefruit & Whiskey Notes Importer: Agri Evolve Harvest: October- February (Arrived UK June 2024) Where is it from? Agri Evolve Ltd is an agricultural development of Social Enterprise working with farmers in Uganda with the aim of improving yields, improving profits, and improving lives. They are helping coffee farmers to improve the quality and quantity of their coffee crop and provide a good market by paying good prices and paying promptly. Since 2018 they have been importing the best of the coffee we produce into the UK. They supply green coffeeGreen coffeeUnroasted coffee seeds as they are traded and shipped. Roasters buy green and roast locally; 'green buying' is the sourcing side of the craft. to Coffee Roasters throughoutthe UK using the trading name Rwenzori Coffee Co. It’s a family business, with Jonny the MD heading up the team in Uganda, and Martin providing the link and supplying green coffee to Coffee Roasters in the UK. We first met Martin at Manchester Coffee Festival in 2017 and have since built up a great relationship and have been very impressed with the coffees we have been able to roast. We visited Ugandan in April 2023 to meet the farmers and communities that have been growing the coffee that we have been enjoying. Arabica Coffee has been grown in the Rwenzori region for as long as anyone can remember, and the conditions of high rainfall, the altitude from 1300 to over 2000 masl and volcanic soils are perfect for the production of high-quality speciality arabica coffee. Practically all coffee is grown by smallholder farmers who have coffee trees growing in their fields alongside other crops. The typical size of a plot is between 1 and 2 acres. The main varietals are SL28 and SL14, but with a range of other older varietals. This mix of varietals contributes to the complexity of the coffee produced. Maliba is at 1600 masl in the foothills of the Rwenzoris, with many farmers living and growing coffee well above this heig