Country: Burundi
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Cup of Excellence 2022
Rank: 19
Score: 87.35
Cup of Excellence: These coffees have each been cupped a minimum of five different times during the cupping process. The winning lots are the top 30 coffees that scored above an 87 by the Cup of Excellence Global Coffee Centers.
National Winners: The National Winner lots are coffees scoring 85+ points during the International Phase by the Cup of Excellence National Jury and International Jury. These coffees have each been cupped a minimum of five different times during the cupping process.
Hear from Irwandi here:
"I am Irwandi, I know coffee from 2016. and started to enter the post-harvest process in 2017, why did I get into the world of coffee because, coffee is a source of economic income for me and my family, besides that processing coffee is also fun for me. My hope for the world of coffee is that the price of coffee will get better and more stable, the market will be wider and more open, we as farmers can be more enthusiastic and confident that coffee is a sufficient and sustainable income for us."
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Honeydew melon, blueberry yoghurt and cumquat
Washing Station: Deri Kidame
Country: Ethiopia
Woreda: Wamena
Zone: Guji
Elevation: 2050 masl
Varieties: Kurume, Dega, Wolisho
Processing: Natural
Sourced Through: Utopia Coffee
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The Deri Kidame washing station is named for the Deri Kidame kebele (town/village), where it is located in the Wamena woreda (administrative district) of Ethiopia’s Guji zone. The area has fertile red brown soil and Cordia Africana and Acacia Ensete ventricosum trees for shade, benefiting the coffee plants grown by the many smallholder farmers who contribute cherries to the washing station. Coffee farms in the area range 2000–2100 meters above sea level in elevation. The washing station is outfitted with 10 fermentation tanks and 181 raised drying beds which are assigned individual codes, allowing for improved traceability and a higher level of control and tracking throughout the drying process.
This lot of coffee underwent Natural processing at the Deri Kidame washing station. Coffee cherries are sorted to remove less dense fruit prior to processing. The cherries are then moved to raised beds where they are dried for approximately 18 days.
Coffee is prepared for export at Tracon Trading’s coffee cleaning and storage plant on 30,000 sq meters of land in Addis Ababa. The plant is equipped with modern Pinhalense coffee processing machines and a Buhler Z+ color sorter. The machine has the capacity of processing six tons per hour. Beans pass through a final hand sort on conveyor belts. The plant’s six storage silos have a capacity of roughly 15,000 metric tons. The warehouses are clean, with ample lighting and ventilation, which are ideal for maintaining the quality of the coffee.
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