Wood St’s Rwandan coffees are here and it wasn’t an easy task to choose just one. We think we’ve made a pretty good selection with these natural process coffee beans from Kinini Coffee. There’s lots of concentrated berry sweetness alongside dried fruit flavour and a malty body that’s reminding us of malt loaf, really ticking the ‘interesting but comforting’ box that we think is needed at this time of year.

The Kinini project was set up by Jacquie Turner and Malcolm Clear and works with over 630 smallholder farmers in the Rulingo district of Rwanda’s Northern Province. The majority of these producers are female farmers who are widows of the Rwandan genocide. Since 2012, the coffee produced at Kinini Washing Station has directly funded their NGO, building a primary school and health centre and improving local infrastructure.

Donations from importers DR Wakefield have helped build a roasting facility, satellite agronomy technology, and the introduction of natural processing at Kinini.