This coffee is grown predominantly by Danu, and some Pa-O hill-tribe smallholder farmers in the remote mountains surrounding Ywangan, in the Taunggyi district of Myanmar. In the cup it is rich and wild, with notes of white-chocolate, morello cherry, and orange wine..

Mandalay Coffee Group (MCG) was established in 2014, and is owned entirely by citizens of Myanmar. It works with these smallholders, providing support, and processing their coffee to bring it to market. This season MCG worked with over 50 smallholder farmers, each of which cultivate between 0.25 and 3 acres of land, with coffee being intercropped with the like of avocado, jackfruit, papaya and macadamia.

The ripe hand-picked coffee cherries are dropped off by the smallholder farmers at local collection points, where it is inspected, graded and purchased by an agent working on behalf of MCG. The coffee is then transported to MCG’s processing mill in Pyin Oo Lwin, about 5 hours’ drive away, where it is hand sorted to remove under-ripe and over-ripe cherries, before being laid out to dry on raised beds.

Ywangan

Red Bank is guided by three core principles - Quality, Traceability and Sustainability. From our base in the heart of the Lake District we source only coffees that are able to satisfy these criteria to roast on our eco-friendly Loring S15 Falcon. Our roasting philosophy is to roast each coffee such that it is fully developed, but to terminate the roast before "roast" flavours start to develop. The ultimate goal is to unlock each coffee's full potential, and to allow it to sing in the cup.

Ywangan

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Ywangan