Gatuya

Description

Region: Muranga, Kenya

Producers: 3,500 smallholders organized around the New Murarandia Farmers Cooperative Society

Varietal: Field Blend(sl-28, sl-34, batian, ruiru)

Process: Washed

Tasting notes: Pinot Grigio, Oolong tea, Jasmine

Producer info and cup notes:

Operated by the New Murarandia Farmers Cooperative Society, Getuya Factory sits on the western side of the Aberdare Mountains in Muranga, Kenya. Getuya Factory serves over 3,500 local smallholders, each owning an average of between 1/5th-1/3rd of a hectare. Upon being delivered, cherry is typically washed for between 12-48 hours in open air concrete tanks, before being moved to a secondary washing channels where it continues to ferment for another 12-72 hours. The coffees are then dried in parchment on raised beds.

Cup Notes: The comparison to our recent Kenya Gachatha release is impossible to avoid here, and this cup clears it quite handily. We are absolute fiends for acidity and this is screaming. Immediately hit with clean white grapes, a white wine note similar to a good Pinot Grigio. As the cup cools, a lovely oolong tea makes itself known, followed by subtle jasmine florals. All throughout the evolution here, that acidity stays poppin and present.

**Note: somewhere along the way the name for this washing station got lost in translation, it is officially Gatuya(Muranga), not to be confused with Getuya(Kirinyaga.) We have corrected this for the 2026 harvest!

Source: Cafe Imports

Text from Shoebox Coffee's listing.