Kenya – Kiambu County Ruera Estate | Mixed Varietals – Natural (Taco Roll)

Introducing: Kenya – Kiambu County, Ruera Estate – Taco Roll Natural

Tastes of : Red grape, cranberry, tropical sweetness

“Fresh Crop. Fruit-forward and a little wild. Kenya by way of a three-day experiment.”

Ruera Estate sits at 1,577m in Juja, Kiambu County — red volcanic soil, two distinct rainy seasons, and a plantation built for washed processing. This lot is something else. Using a method the estate calls the Taco Roll, hand-picked SL28, Ruiru 11, Batian and K7 are wrapped airtight in tarpaulins directly on raised drying beds and left under open sun for three days. The sealed period creates a short anaerobic fermentation before the tarps come off and the cherries dry in a thin, 1-inch layer. The result lands nowhere near a typical Kenyan: red grape and cranberry up front, drifting into tropical sweetness as the cup opens.

Ruera is a 190-hectare estate in Juja Sub-County, about 15km from Ruiru town. Owned by Kofinaf Co. Ltd and managed by Coffee Management Services Ltd, the estate employs around 300 workers daily — 30% of whom live on-site. Kiambu is washed-coffee country. Naturals from here are rare, which is precisely why this lot is worth trying.

This fresh harvest coffee has landed at the perfect time! Grab it while stock lasts.

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