Anastase Mudaherenwa, Rwanda.

It is extremely rare to be able to get a coffee that is traceable back to a single producer in Rwanda, so we feel extremely fortunate to be able to share this special lot from Anastase Mudaherenwa. With an impressive 5,200 coffee trees, across 15 plots of land, 81-year old Anastase is one of the largest estate holders in the area and has enough cherry to process sizeable day lots individually. Having inherited his first plot of coffee trees from his parents in his teens, Anastase has over 60 years of accumulated knowledge about coffee growing here, and has seen many changes in the industry.

When he first began producing coffee, cherries were arduously pulped by hand using stones, and growers sold dried parchment to anonymous brokers at very low prices. Today, Anastase delivers and sells his cherry to Buf Coffee, who own their own dry mill where they can process smaller lots individually, whilst minimising cost and maintaining excellent quality standards. With the addition of a dry mill to their infrastructure, Buf Coffee can now control quality from when coffee cherries are delivered to the washing station, all the way through to export. Thanks to these resources, Anastase can prosper as a coffee farmer, and his children and grandchildren see a future in specialty production.