Size – 26,338 sq km

Capital City – Kigali

Main Port City – Landlocked country

Population – 12,988,423 (July 2016)

Language/s Spoken – Kinyarwanda (official), French (official), English (official)

Growing Regions – Western Province (including Kabrizi, Lake Kivu, and Gishamwana Island), Southern Province (Butare, Nyanza), Northern Province (Rulindo), Eastern Province (Ngoma District)

Common Varieties – Bourbon, French Mission Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai, Mibirizi

Processing Method/s – Washed

Country-Specific Grading – High Grade (screen size 16), Medium Grade (screen size 15), Ordinary (screen size 14 and below)

Bag Size – 60 kg

Harvest Period – March– June

Typical Arrival – September–December

Our travels to the Lake Kivu region have resulted in phenomenal lots both from washing stations like Kabrizi and Kigeyo on the lake’s eastern shores, and Gishamwana Island, a seeming coffee paradise where the plants are grown, processed, and milled in an environment as yet untouched by the same diseases and pests that crop up on the mainland.

Café Imports’ will continue to support further research into eradicating the potato defect, which will certainly bring Rwandan coffee to the next level of quality and improve on the amazing reputation it already has. In the meantime, however, we have been pleased, proud, and privileged to be working with producers there who are currently producing some of the cleanest, most dynamic, and highest-quality coffees the country and its remarkable terroir has to offer.

We love Rwandan coffee, and we are excited to share the very best of it with you.

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