Your Cart is Empty
Burundi Ngozi Bahire
$31.00
Summary
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.
This is a traditional double-washed coffee from Ngozi, Burundi, produced by smallholder farmers of the Bahire wash-station and part of JNP Coffee (more on that below).
Origin: Ngozi, Burundi
Varietal: Bourbon, Heirloom Varieties
Processing: Double-washed, fermented, dried on raised beds.
Roast Level: Medium/Medium-Dark
Flavor Profile
This coffee has some lightly floral notes of orange blossom and honeysuckle. It has a medium body but a crisp and clean finish. It highlights the main flavors of golden raisin, cashew butter and caramel candy.
Details
Jeanine Niyonzima-Aroian, the founder ofJNP Coffees, is without a doubt one of the most influential individuals in Burundi coffee today.
Raised in the capital city of Bujumbura, Jeanine would go on to earn an MBA from Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School, cycle through corporate America, and eventually reconnect with her birth country by founding Burundi Friends International, a not-for-profit funding educational and economic empowerment programs for rural Burundians, which is now in its 13th year. After a few years marketing Burundi coffees stateside for friends and family, Jeanine realized she had every reason to lead the business, and JNP Coffee was born.
JNP Coffee is highly focused on women’s empowerment, and along with a few local women’s rights advocates, formulated the Burundi chapter of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance. JNP has created additional programs to expand their farmer base and generate premiums not just for women farmers, but for everyone involved. Producer groups of women and men alike, such as this one, can qualify for JNP’s new “DushimeTM” program, which delivers very high post-harvest premiums rewarding farmers for hard work.
Type: Ultra-Specialty