Kenya Gaturiri

Tasting Notes: Blackberry Cobbler, Raspberry & Mandrin Orange Gaturiri is a Kikuyu word for “the shrubs.” It is a known to be a place where people visit to collect herbs for medicine. Gaturiri serves about 1,500 small scale producers and produces approximately 600 tons of cherry. The Barichu Farmers Cooperative Society is located in the Mathira East Sub-County in Nyeri county. It is currently composed of four factories, Karatina, Karindundu, Gaturiri and Gatomboya. It was registered in October 1996 with the Cooperative Development and Coffee Board of Kenya. Nowhere are coffees as thoroughly cleaned as they are in Kenya. The typical process looks something like this: after depulping, coffee beans are left to ferment. Then, after 24 hours they are washed and left to ferment again, without water, for another 12-24 hours. The parchment is then washed before being soaked in tanks for another period of roughly 12-18 hours. At this stage, the beans are moved to skin drying beds where t