Producer: Gamatui, Sipi Falls Community
Location: Kapchorwa, Sipi Falls, Uganda
Harvest (months): November-January
Altitude: 1,700-1950 meters above sea level
Varieties: SL-34, SL-14 & Bourbon
Processing: Washed, with extended-fermentation
Sipi is a community located in eastern Uganda on the slopes on Mount Elgon. This region is famous for its beautiful waterfalls, and is also one of the highest elevation coffee producing areas in the country. In the last seven years, Kawacom, a Ugandan coffee processing company, has partnered with Atlantic Specialty Coffee, one of our importers, and made major investments in refining their infrastructure, making meticulous drying and storage upgrades. This has had a positive impact on the quality of all the coffees coming from their processing site in Chema, but it shows particularly in the honey and natural processed coffees they are now creating, which are consistently very fruity and juicy, but never overly fermented.
Thanks to all their hard work and upgrades, we have the opportunity to taste the delicious coffee from the Gamatui community specifically processed in three different ways: washed, honey processed, and natural sun-dried.
