• Description
  • Specs

  • Our current Decaf offering is from a three year relationship with Vunga Co-operative. The team at Vunga is led by women and has 260 active members who contribute. The operation is not of huge scale, but the quality is remarkable, and has been recognized a handful of times with a placement as high as 4th in Cup of Excellence Rwanda.

    This season, Vunga processed a record of 185 tons of coffee cherry. In the 2018 harvest, Vunga made significant strides with their infrastructure, building out a coffee nursery and providing better assistance to the farmers who contribute their cherry. These improvements have helped in both the quality of the coffee and the volume produced.

    In 2019, Vunga was impacted by a landslide, when a large boulder detached from a nearby hill and rolled nearly two kilometres, causing destruction of a lot of the infrastructure the co-operative had recently developed.

    All the coffee in production at Vunga is undergoing a washed process. After being pulped in a Penagos depulper, the coffee is fermented for an average of 6 hours before being laid to dry for 35 days. When we were there, the parchment was clean, the beds were being raked, shifted and sorted, and the team behind Vunga was very excited to meet foreign buyers.
    We believe this cooperative has the potential to achieve amazing cup quality and demonstrate the operations of a sustainable cooperative model in the coffee industry. Emerine, the station manager, is a very highly regarded and strong willed woman, who asked for feedback on her execution stages at the cooperative. This alone is a sign that great things are to come for the members of Vunga and the coffees they're producing.
     
    Producer: MTCo Partnership with Vunga Cooperative
    Station Manager: Dafrose Uwimana
    Micro-Mill: Vunga Co-op
    Country: Rwanda
    Build Date: March 2009
    First Year Rosso Purchased: 2017
    Region: Nyabihu, North Western Region of Rwanda
    Varietal: Red Bourbon
    Processing Techniques Purchased: Washed
    Elevation of farms: 1650 - 2000m
    Tasting Notes: Milk Chocolate, Black Tea, Sweet Raisin
    Roasted For: Filter
     
    This is the third year working directly with Vunga Coop and the first year we've had it decaffeinated..

  • Quantity: 340g

Customer Reviews

Based on 5 reviews
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Kay t. (Montreal, CA)
A Coffee I Can Drink All Day Long

The espresso tastes good for a wide range of inputs when I dial-in. I drink this coffee for an additional cup without overdosing myself with caffeine and ended up experimenting different special drinks all day long.

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K (Mississauga, CA)
Good decaf

Not too much acidity, pretty good for a late afternoon coffee

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Annon (Richmond, CA)
Good coffee

It made a good cup in the aeropress and my friend loves it in his espresso machine. I feel like the roast is a slight touch more developed than Elysian, 49th Parallel, and Phil & Seb styles. Well worth it!

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Matt (Vancouver, CA)
Probably the best decaf I've ever had

Rosso says it's roasted for filter, but I run it as espresso for late night cappuccinos and it's been beautiful. I do a pretty basic 18.5 g in 39 g out in 25 seconds and I'm getting lots of chocolate and some dried fruit flavours. Works very well with a bit of steamed milk.

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Rachelle T. (Surrey, CA)
Retry good

A bit lighter than I was expecting, but the flavour was still really nice. Used it for pour over on my new setup and am now addicted to my evening cup of decaf. Would purchase again.

Customer Reviews

Based on 5 reviews
80%
(4)
20%
(1)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
K
Kay t. (Montreal, CA)
A Coffee I Can Drink All Day Long

The espresso tastes good for a wide range of inputs when I dial-in. I drink this coffee for an additional cup without overdosing myself with caffeine and ended up experimenting different special drinks all day long.

K
K (Mississauga, CA)
Good decaf

Not too much acidity, pretty good for a late afternoon coffee

A
Annon (Richmond, CA)
Good coffee

It made a good cup in the aeropress and my friend loves it in his espresso machine. I feel like the roast is a slight touch more developed than Elysian, 49th Parallel, and Phil & Seb styles. Well worth it!

M
Matt (Vancouver, CA)
Probably the best decaf I've ever had

Rosso says it's roasted for filter, but I run it as espresso for late night cappuccinos and it's been beautiful. I do a pretty basic 18.5 g in 39 g out in 25 seconds and I'm getting lots of chocolate and some dried fruit flavours. Works very well with a bit of steamed milk.

R
Rachelle T. (Surrey, CA)
Retry good

A bit lighter than I was expecting, but the flavour was still really nice. Used it for pour over on my new setup and am now addicted to my evening cup of decaf. Would purchase again.

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