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Rwanda Nyamasheke Mutovu
Prominent sweetness and well-integrated acidity are a big part in Mutovu's appeal. Layered notes of honey, molasses, and cocoa, clean accents of dried fruit, brisk black tea, and spice cake. City to Full City+. Good for espresso.
88.5
Full Cupping Notes
Mutovu is a balanced Rwandan coffee, with well-developed sweetness of unrefined sugars offset by dark cocoa roast tones in the City+/Full City roast range. The moderate acidity level and big body that are developed in these roasts make it a great option for espresso too (especially Full City-FC+!). The sweetness in the dry grounds allude to maple, rustic sugars, with a hint of cinnamon stick. The wet aroma at City-CIty+ roast level has the sweetness of molasses, with layers of red honey, vanilla, and cocoa. Light and middle roasts are delicious, where cup sweetness and well integrated acidity shines through as Mutovu's strength, along with pleasant roast flavors provide background contrast. The sweetness has an aromatic quality, like honey and molasses, along with milder fruit flavors like raisin and dried black currants. The cup has pleasantly bright dimension at City/C+ levels, brisk like black tea with a spritz of lemon, finishing with an aromatic twist of spice cake. Full City roasts pack hefty bittersweetness too, flavors of dark cacao, bean-to-bar chocolate, and a pungent burnt caramel note in the finish. Evaluated as espresso, Full City shots yielded bittersweet dark chocolate, cinnamon caramel, with finish accents of dried coconut and lemon peel.
- Process Method Wet Process (Washed)
- Cultivar Bourbon Types
- Farm Gate Yes
The Mutovu coffee station was established as a in 2012 in Nyamasheke area of Western Rwanda. It is in an ideal area for growing coffee with rich soils, and with so many small holder coffee farmers, it's also a central location for a coffee washing station. The wet mill visits at 1800 meters, with coffee being grown in the area up to 1950 meters. Mutovu Coffee is fairly small compared to many of the other coops and washing stations we buy from, estimated output this year at 2 containers of coffee (roughly 85,000 lbs of milled coffee - twice the amount from when they started). Each farmer supplies their own cherries to the station, as well as collects cherries from their neighbors. We have been buying Mutovu every year since they were established, as well as visiting the coop on every trip to Rwanda we make. Each year we're seeing improvements at the mill, last year's included upgraded milling equipment, new drying beds and a brand new warehouse to better store their parchment coffee. They received CAFE Practices certification too, part of which which means they are separating process batches by day of delivery, a first step in identifying different levels of quality.
| Region | Nyamasheke, Western Province |
|---|---|
| Processing | Wet Process (Washed) |
| Drying Method | Raised Bed Sun-Dried |
| Arrival date | January 2026 Arrival |
| Lot size | 20 |
| Bag size | 60 KG |
| Packaging | GrainPro Liner |
| Farm Gate | Yes |
| Cultivar Detail | Bourbon |
| Grade | A1 |
| Appearance | .2 d/300gr, 15-17 Screen |
| Roast Recommendations | City to Full City+ |
| Type | Farm Gate |
| Recommended for Espresso | Yes |
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