Cultivar Reserve coffees originate with us as part of a members-only club that offers a journey through the most niche and exotic beans on the planet. Featuring a diversity of growing regions, every coffee is the rarest of the rare and is hand-selected from the “cream of the crop” to offer a unique experience with each batch. These coffees are made available to members at below market prices, but any coffee for which we have extra inventory is listed on our site for public sale. Please enjoy these fine coffees, as you will not find them on your everyday shelf.

This coffee an amazing fully washed bourbon-typica cultivar coffee from the Kayanza Province in Burundi. The beans were harvested from a specialty small plot farmer and were fermented after being fully washed, resulting in a heavily tropical flavor. Passionfruit, grapefruit and orange pop on the palate and is rounded out by accents of lime, while some natural sweetness lends balance and ties all the flavors together.

Natural sweetness in coffee is difficult to capture and is fleeting in the roasting process, as you must catch the roast at the moment when everything comes together perfectly inside the bean in order to preserve the sugars before they evaporate away. However, when you do capture it, the sugar will often elevate the flavor, as is true with this offering. Extremely refreshing, this coffee would be great brewed through drip and pour over or cold brewed, and served hot or over ice.