Coffee production in Burundi

Burundi shares a lot with its neighbor Rwanda: the best lots are sweet and balanced, with quiet florals, stone fruit, ripe citrus that often reads as tangerine, and cocoa. A good washed Burundi can taste like fig jam with sparkling citrus on top, a fine pick if you like East African brightness but want more sweetness behind it. Most farmers grow coffee on less than a hectare and deliver their cherries to washing stations, so bags usually name a province such as Kayanza or Ngozi plus the station rather than a single farm. Like Rwanda, Burundi can carry the potato defect, a raw-potato taste in affected beans. The harvest runs from March to July, so new-crop bags arrive late in the year.