Country: Rwanda
Region: Northern Province
District: Rulindo
Washing Station: Tumba
Producers: Various smallholder farmers
Altitude: 1825 masl
Variety: Bourbon
Process: Fully washed, dried on raised beds
Best for: AeroPress, Chemex

Tumba washing station has become one of Rulindo district's most reliable heavy hitters, and that evolution is entirely the work of Venustre Mugraneza. A local teacher deeply respected throughout the Tumba community for which the station is named, Venustre took over the mill and poured himself into improving every single aspect of the operation. Methodically. Obsessively. The result is coffee that shows up exactly as promised, year after year - the kind of consistency that separates good coffee from the stuff that makes you a loyalist.

The micro lot we're roasting now comes from the best cherries that roll through the station - dried on dedicated raised beds in a special area, hand-sorted with the kind of meticulous focus that only happens when someone actually gives a damn. The cup delivers everything great Rwandan coffee promises and then some. Clean, bright, structured. Blackberry and Assam tea dancing with warming spice and citrus that doesn't hold back. It's the kind of coffee that reminds you why Rwanda earned its stripes as one of specialty's most dependable producers.

Under Venustre's steady hand, Tumba has become exactly what you want in a coffee partner - focused, dedicated, consistently excellent. Sometimes the best coffee stories aren't about drama or discovery. They're about someone chopping wood, day-in and day-out.