Producers: smallholders from the Gatundu community
Where: Karatina town, Nyeri, Kenya
Varieties: SL28, SL34
Processing: Washed
Importer: Red Fox
Harvest: Jan 2024
Tasting notes: phosphoric, black tea, red currant
Depulped and fermented overnight, before washing & dried on raised beds, this AA lot separation represents the deliveries of 685 members of the Gatundu community, who deliver ripe cherry to Ndaroini.
With soft currant acidity, resinous, and a pleasant floral complexity to tie it all together, this lot is comprised of SL28 & SL34 varieties grown and processed by folks organized around the Ndaroini washing station in Gatundu subregion of Nyeri in central Kenya.