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Burundi Yandaro Natural — supplied coffee image 1
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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Burundi Yandaro Natural; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Burundi Yandaro Natural; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇧🇮Burundi · Kayanza

Burundi Yandaro Natural

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsBurundiKayanzanullNaturalWine-likeCaramelArabicaSingle originSpecialtyYandaro Washing StationGreencoIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)Variety undisclosed
🇧🇮BurundiNatural
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇧🇮Burundi
Region
Kayanza
Town
Yandaro
Farm / Station
Yandaro Washing Station
Farmer / Producer
Greenco
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
null
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Ripe Dark Fruits, Fortified Wine, Caramel, Stone Fruit
Fermentation
—
Drying
Whole cherries dried on raised beds with near-constant monitoring
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • varietyThe roaster has not disclosed the variety.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Burundi Yandaro Natural
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    null
  5. 05
    The farm
    Yandaro Washing Station
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Greenco
  7. 07
    The region
    Kayanza
  8. 08
    The country
    🇧🇮Burundi
From the producer

Greenco operates Yandaro Washing Station and purchases cherry from the surrounding smallholder community. Published farmer counts vary by source and crop year; Intelligentsia describes more than 3,000 producers served.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia has sourced Yandaro for multiple seasons. The current natural release is a deliberate contrast to the washed coffees more commonly offered from Burundi.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A transparent washing-station natural that documents smallholder scale, cherry selection, raised-bed drying, current price, package size, availability, and flavor profile without assigning an unsupported cultivar or release-specific elevation.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Cherry delivery

Smallholder families handpicked ripe cherry and delivered it to Yandaro.

02
Sorting

Cherries were floated in water and sorted by hand to remove damaged, underripe, and overripe fruit.

03
Natural drying

Selected high-quality cherries remained whole and dried on raised beds under near-constant monitoring.

What was added?

No yeast, fruit, spices, or other fermentation additions are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No post-roast flavoring is documented.

Why it matters

The workflow is a traditional natural process, not a generic washed Yandaro preparation.

What you might taste

Ripe dark fruit, fortified-wine sweetness, caramel, and stone fruit, according to Intelligentsia.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/burundi-yandaro-natural
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/burundi-yandaro-natural
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-25) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Yandaro Washing Station →Meet the farmer: Greenco →
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