Crisp, delicious goodness from Rambagirakawa Women's Group!

Late winter into spring is a time for Southern Hemisphere coffees to shine, and we're stoked to kick off Southern Hemisphere Africas with Rambagirakawa!

Rambagirakawa is a subgroup of the larger Dukundekawa Musasa Cooperative, made up of quality-driven female farmers, and this is Huckleberry’s third year roasting coffee from the Rambagirakawa group. This year our washed coffee comes from female farmers based around the cooperative's Nkara washing station, with our natural coming from Ruli station.

We’ve sourced the past several harvests of Rwandan coffee through Artisan Imports, who focuses on working with women’s producer groups in Rwanda. We’ve roasted some delicious coffees, but beyond coffee, all of the groups Artisan works with focus on helping its members attain higher pricing, and re-invest their premiums into women’s health and education initiatives, agronomy support, and microcredit loans for their members. In addition to this delicious washed coffee, we’ll also have a fruit-forward natural Rambagirakawa, too, coming soon!

One of the reasons we love Rwandan coffee is that the country is planted almost entirely in Bourbon, a coffee variety that lends a deep, sugary, syrupy sweetness. Variety, rich red clay soil, meticulous picking and sorting, and careful processing all work together to layer that sweetness with sparkling acidity and complexity.

We're tasting cranberry, dried apricot, marzipan, and lemon meringue in this years’ washed Rambagirakawa, and we’re looking forward to roasting both this coffee and its fruitier, natural-processed counterpart as we head towards spring here in Denver!