Tasting notes:  Lavender, lemon, strawberry, floral, and berry jam
 
Country: Uganda
Region: Kigezi, South WesternUganda 
Cultivar: Nyasaland
Process: Minimal Intervention Natural - coffee cherries dried on raised beds in the sun 
Altitude: 2000 – 2200 masl 
Good For: Pour Over, Auto Drip, Espresso
 
Description:
This is a minimal intervention natural Nyasaland variety coffee from Kigezi Valley, Uganda, produced by 300 smallholder farmers organized around Kigezi Valley Coffee and Mountain Harvest. 
The flavor profile is immaculate and impressive, with hues evocative of a summer sunset and a cup that brims with autumnal stone fruits. We taste strawberries and lemons, lavender and rose jam, pear tart and pluot. 
When brewed, our baristas favored a fine grind, a slightly lower dose, and conical brewer for pour-overs. 
Taste: 
Likely one of the best Ugandan coffees I’ve ever tasted, this natural processed coffee comes to us from the Kigezi highlands. As iconic as this flavor profile is, this coffee has an approachable profile that is sure to be delicious in any brewing form. On the nose it’s full of stone fruit and in the cup, there are notes of raisin, honey, plum and blueberry.  
The perfect summer-to-fall coffee, it has those pink and orange hues of a summer sunset; rose jam, pluot and ripe strawberries. And it also has the essence of the changing season of fall; pear tart, raw honey, and deep chocolate. A synthesis of two opposite flavors creates an incredibly cohesive experience. 
Mountain Harvest is a supplier that has been doing excellent work to raise the level of awareness around the potential for high quality Ugandan coffee. All the while, they are providing better pay as well as education for farmers that contribute to their program. Uganda doesn’t historically have the best reputation for coffee quality, and it’s coffees like this one that are going to change the narrative.