some coffees come from places shaped by resilience where every harvest carries not just flavour, but a story of community and perseverance kageyo is one of those coffees
 
perched high in the hills near lake kivu, kageyo washing station sits at the heart of rwanda’s fertile western region it began in 2009 with a simple but powerful idea a group of smallholder farmers coming together to build something of their own with a loan and a vision, they constructed a central processing unit and by 2010, they were producing fully washed coffee for the first time
 
that same year, they entered the cup of excellence and stunned the country by placing second then, in 2011, they took first place proof of the incredible potential hiding in those high altitude hills but the path wasn’t easy despite their acclaim, poor yields in 2011 made repaying their loan difficult, and the co-op’s future hung in the balance
 
in 2013, things began to shift with support from rwanda trading company, the co-op received help with agronomy, production, and global marketing two years later, rtc bought the station, cleared the debt, and most importantly kept the co-op structure alive the farmers remained at the core
 
today, kageyo continues to produce coffee of extraordinary quality grown between 1800 and 2000 meters, each cherry is hand picked and carefully processed the result is a cup that’s clean, vibrant, and full of the quiet strength of the people behind it
 
at untold coffee, we celebrate the coffees that beat the odds not just for how they taste, but for the stories they carry kageyo is a tribute to what’s possible when farmers work together and refuse to give up on something they believe in
 
pour it slow this is more than coffee this is community in every sip.