KiliMeru: Fusion-ing Taste and Community

The KiliMeru blend is a harmonious fusion of flavors sourced from the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru. Wanza’s vision for this blend was to create a sensory experience that captures the essence of Tanzanian coffee, offering European roasters a single coffee that embodies the country’s rich and diverse taste profile.

Beyond its exceptional flavor, the KiliMeru blend stands as a testament to innovation and community empowerment. By incorporating contributions from farmers who might face challenges consistently producing grade 1 quality, the blend creates a sustainable avenue for income. This flexibility enables farmers to maintain their livelihoods while gradually investing in quality improvements for the future.

Through this collaborative approach, Wanza and This Side Up bridge the gap between roasters and farmers, fostering economic independence and a shared commitment to excellence. The KiliMeru blend is not just a coffee; it’s a catalyst for growth and a celebration of Tanzanian terroir.

CULTIVARS

Arabica Bourbon (Jackson, Mbirizi) and Kent

elevation

1,450 - 1,700 meters above sea level

NOTABLE

The KiliMeru blend combines flavor profiles from farmers Wanza has worked with for over seven years, ensuring the blend highlights the unique qualities of Tanzanian coffee.

PROCESSING

Double Wet Fermentation : Cherries are depulped using simple hand-pulpers and strictly washed the same day they are picked. They are then double wet-fermented (2x 18 hours), shade dried, and then sun dried on raised beds.

TASTIFY™ CUPPING NOTES

2025 HARVEST

Access our cupping reports by clicking on link below

Wanza – KiliMeru community lot - washed

The price you pay for KiliMeru washed p/kg. We agreed on this price directly with the farmers, disregarding the volatile US Coffee C price.
Wanza is responsible for a number of activities between the coffee at origin to Rotterdam. This fee per kg includes their salaries, farmer training and development fee, Business expenses that include travelling to visit the farmers, local taxes, Warehousing, Sampling as well shipping to the nearest port for export
International shipping from Dar es Salaam to Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is inclusive of freight, customs, insurance and warehousing costs.
Average financing cost owed to (mostly social) lenders. This ensures immediate payment to the farmers when the coffee leaves the farm or port.It also includes storage, risk fee, storage and profit
A standard TSU premium on all coffees designated exclusively to accelerate farmers’ own regenerative agriculture project
This Side Up compensation for spending time and resources importing this coffee. Our work includes year-round contact with producers, managing export, shipping, import, warehousing, grading, sampling, finding and keeping roasting partners for Wanza. € 1,22 is This Side Up’s Model 1 markup. For a full overview of our modular margin construction, see the Trade Models page.
It is worth noting that coffees have a different price since we are trying out different grades for the first time this season. And even though the farmers were paid the same farm gate for the all grades, in reality the differences can be taken from the TSU margin.

CONTACT WANZA

Wanza can be reached by email or by phone. Frank is happy to have visitors to show around their coffee farms and host in their village, close to the city of Arusha and to numerous national parks

TEL : +255 713 838 181

EMAIL mlayff@gmail.com/ wanzacoffee@gmail.com