Ripe stone fruits, big aromatics, delicate florals!

This is a wonderfully expressive Sudan Rume from Cafe Granja La Esperanza! We taste bright and ripe stone fruits, delicate florality, and a sweet finish. We find the aromatics on this coffee to be very distinctive (purple/violet) and the whole cup is loud bursting with fruits. This is a great example of how far the Sudan Rume varietal has come. 

We recommend you rest this coffee for at least 2-3 weeks before brewing.

From La Cabra:

This is the ninth year we have purchased Sudan Rume grown on Cafe Granja La Esperanza’s Las Margaritas farm. Always stunning us with its strong varietal characteristics, we once again look forward to the distinctive Sudan Rume aromatic character. The Sudan Rume varietal has been lauded for its cup quality, partly down to competition success, but it hasn’t always been this way.

The Sudan Rume varietal originates from modern day South Sudan, in what is now the Boma National Park. The park lies just across the border from Ethiopia, inside the small area where Arabica coffee still grows completely wild. Sudan Rume, or RS-510 as it is officially designated, is indeed an heirloom or ‘wild’ varietal, mainly used as a stock of high quality genes for new hybrid varietals. There are very few commercial plantations of pure Sudan Rume due to its low yields and susceptibility to disease, but Granja have planted a 4.8 hectare plot on Las Margaritas, and it has consistently produced outstanding results.