C039: 

Farm/Producer: Picasso Nduwayo

Region: Uganda, Manafwa, Mt Elgon

Process: Natural

Altitude: 1700 -1850 masl

Variety: SL14, SL28 and Nyasaland

Cup Profile: Apricot, Sweet Melon, Banana Bread

Background info: 

Our first ever coffee offering from Uganda and definitely one we can get behind. As always we enjoy exploring beyond the renowned coffee growing regions, delving into something new, always developing and always learning. An important factor in our decision making is that taste is king, and we often cup potential coffees and current lots blind so that we eliminate bias. 

We are happy to present to you Wahata a community lot based at Manafwa on the south side of Mount Elgon. This lot has been spearheaded by Mr Picasso Nduwayo who earned his reputation and skills in Burundi before venturing off to Uganda with the sole aim of elevating the quality of coffee. This natural has been dried on raised beds until it reaches a moisture content of 15% where it then gets placed into sealed containers for two days before finishing the drying. 

We knew this would be an interesting coffee to share straight from the cupping table. This specialty lot had all the best elements of African coffees. On filter we picked up quite a lot of citrus and stone fruit notes particularly notes of apricot. On espresso we got a prominent note of sweet melon but our highlight would definitely be our milk based where it produced notes of freshly baked banana bread.