Impressions: black currant, dark chocolate, mango
Roast degree: light-medium (2.5/5)
 

Country: Kenya
Region: Ngariama, Kirinyaga County, Mount Kenya
Farmers: Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society
Processing station: Kii factory
Variety: SL28 and SL34 (C grade)
Process: Washed

It feels so good to have coffee from Vava back on the menu. Kenya is always a special treat, and this time we bring you something that is not seen that often in the specialty coffee: a C grade.
The AA and AB lots have bigger beans and are the most sought after, but tasting blindly a table full of Kenyans, this C grade was actually our favourite!

One of the main things about the Kii washing station is consistency and quality. Year after year, this group of enthusiastic hard working farmers have created a reputation for themselves and the factory is one of the most highly sought after when it comes to quality lots.
It's not always easy to secure lots from Kii due to the high demand, but Vava has been working with them for the past 10 years and she usually gets a bunch of their top lots.

The Kii Factory, alongside the Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society have been building their strong reputation for quality since 1953, and Vava strongly believes that the factory produces some of the best lots in all of Kirinyaga.

In 2009 Vava Angwenyi made the decision to create real change in the Kenyan Coffee industry. Between the challenges of poverty, corruption and fear, she saw smiles. She saw smallholder coffee farmers  that wanted to change their lives but could not get their voices heard.
Vava Specialty Coffee is  a social enterprise in Nairobi that seeks to cause positive social and economic disruption within the coffee industry and create sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers.