Flavour & aroma notes of chocolate, roasted walnut & nutmeg, with a warming caramel sweetness...
plus the subtle addition of apple as the coffee cools.
 
Country: Malawi
Region: Thyolo
Processing Station: Satemwa Estate
Process: Fully Washed
Varietal: Catimor
Altitude: 900-1000 metres above sea level
 
Satemwa is a 3rd generation family-owned tea and coffee estate in the Shire Highlands of Malawi. Established in 1923, 2023 will mark one hundred years of tea production and fifty four years of coffee production, with coffee being introduced to Satemwa in 1971.
 
Interspersed between Satemwa's coffee fields are riverine forest areas that play an important role in the protection of indigenous flora and fauna in the Southern Highlands of Malawi, where population pressure has decimated all but a few isolated pockets.
Certain types of (non-coffee) tree have been planted to...
provide shade
nesting for birds
attract butterflies and other fauna
positively impact the soil
 
Satemwa coffee is hand picked and sorted to ensure the cherries are ripe, thus producing sweet and aromatic coffee. After channel grading, the coffee is sun dried over 15-30 days to achieve a moisture content of 11-12%.
 
Many thanks to Satemwa Estate for allowing the use of their images on elevenses website.