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[30 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

This is a coffee with a bittersweet story. My Uncle Dick put me in touch with his friend, Robert Crow in Georgia, who sent us our first bag of Rwanda beans from the Gashonga cooperative over a year ago.
It is truly  a great coffee.  Rwanda produces the world’s finest coffee beans. Its volcanic soil, high altitude and plentiful rain are ideal conditions for growing specialty single origin Arabica beans.  I am so happy to know that Rwanda today is making progres thanks to the many efforts of Mr. …