Giku

by Flower Child

Variety: Red Bourbon Region: Kayanza, Burundi Elevation: 1,700+ Meters Above Sea Level Harvest: June 2024 Process: Honey Notes: Nectarine, Rainier Cherry Carob. Our last offering from Burundi this year is a really fun and clean Honey Process of Giku Hill's out turn. This is a lively and well structured cup, with notes of baking spices and a likeness of red tea, peaches, waffle cone cherry pie. Giku Hill is about as far out there as you can get, many kilometers away from any town or washing station for the longest time. The coffee farmers had to cross over two rivers and pass by two province borders to get their coffees into processing/purchase points. Although there are many small rivers running through this region, the communities that live here have little access to clean drinking water and are far beyond the reach of electricity. Coffee is the most important crop grown on the hill, closely competing with corn and beans. The fringes of the Kibira Forest, Burundi’s only indigenous