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This coffee has some amazing chocolate richness with cooked stone fruit (peach and plum). It has moderate fruit-like acidity.  

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Nemba Washing Station is located in the province of Kayanza and was established in 1991. Farmers here own less than half a hectare of land, on average, and in addition to growing coffee, they also grow crops like bananas, beans, yams, taro, and cassava, both for sale and for household use.

There are 3113 farmers that deliver to this washing station. Each farmer has roughly 168 trees on about a sixth of a hectare of land. Due to the small size and yield on the average coffee farm or plot, washing stations are the primary point of purchase for us in Burundi. Unlike other coffee-growing regions in Central and South America where landholdings are slightly larger and coffee-centric resources are more available, most producers do not have space on their property or the financial means to do their wet- or dry-milling. Instead, the majority of growers deliver coffee cherries to a facility that does sorting, blending, and post-harvest processing of day lots to create different offerings.

Burundi is a small African country located just below Rwanda and Squeezed between DRC and Tanzania. It is completely landlocked (similar to Rwanda) and part of the Great Rift Valley. This country is about the size of Maryland so pretty small. The country only produces about 160,000 bags of coffee annually. Compare this to Ethiopia's coffee exports of 3.5 million bags and it gives you an idea of size of this tiny producer. All that being said, the coffee quality is stunning and here is a small lot to prove it.