Ishando, Tanzania

Origin

• 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
• Bright
• Floral
• Funky

Founded in 2018, Ishando began as a collective of only twenty-five members bringing home-grown and processed coffees to be bulked and sold. Last year, they expanded to build a washing stationWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee. and have begun producing up to 60 tons of fully 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. coffee. Their efforts are now focused on improving quality year over year and recruiting more members. Ishando is a tea-like and crisp coffee, with notes of blood orange, concord grape, and oolong.