Burundi Yandaro Natural

Origin

• 🇧🇮 Burundi

Tasting notes

Character

• Bold
  50
• Funky
  45

Over the past eight seasons, our search for the cleanest and sweetest coffees in Burundi has led us to the village of Yandaro, where Greenco purchases and processes ripe cherry from thousands of 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 and processes it with an exacting focus on quality. Each year, our coffee team looks forward to launching Yandaro lots on our single originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. menu. This lot, a carefully processed 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., offers a surprising twist on the traditional washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. coffees we typically offer from Burundi. The resulting cup delivers notes of ripe dark fruits and the deep, syrupy sweetness of a fortified wine.