Burundi Kayanza

PROCESS: WashedVARIETY: BourbonELEVATION: 1,600-1,900 metersROAST: MediumBODY: AverageNOTES: Raisin, fresh red grape, intense caramel, and burnt sugar flavors with tangy tartaric acidity and intense syrupy sweetness. The Rubagabaga Washing Station is located in the Kayanza region of Burundi and is named after the hill it sits on. Many producers from around the region contribute to this washing station. Much of Rubagabaga’s fame and reputation comes from an abundance of banana trees in the region. The locals make use of “umubaga” which is the first juice squeezed out of the banana to brew beer, one of the many homemade brews the country so fondly makes. Burundi microlots are selected out of the daylots created by various centralized washing stations, basis cup quality. Because the average farmer in Burundi owns 1/8–1/4 a hectare of land, many smallholder farmers will deliver their fresh cherry to a washing station in order to be sorted and processed; microlots, then, are blended lots co