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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL28 - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL28 - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL28 - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL28 - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Embu

2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL28 - Kenya

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaEmbuSL28WashedBlackberryGrapefruitArabicaSingle originKamavindi EstateMbature familySey CoffeeIndependent
🇰🇪KenyaWashedSL28
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇰🇪Kenya
Region
Embu
Town
Embu
Farm / Station
Kamavindi Estate
Farmer / Producer
Mbature family
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
SL28
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Blackberry, Rooibos, Candied grapefruit
Fermentation
Dry-fermented 18–20 hours in darkness, repeatedly washed, then dry-fermented another 24 hours before final washing and channel density sorting.
Drying
Raised beds under shade nets to 16% moisture, then upper beds to approximately 10.5%.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • roast levelThe cited exact-release sources do not publish a roast label; no roast level was inferred.
  • price usdSEY publishes a direct green-coffee price per kilogram, not a comparable retail bag price.
  • roast dateNo exact roast date is published for this archived sold-out release.
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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
    2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL28 - Kenya
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    SL28
  5. 05
    The farm
    Kamavindi Estate
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Mbature family
  7. 07
    The region
    Embu
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

SEY identifies Peter Mbature, Hellen Weveti and Gladwell Wanjira as the family managing Kamavindi Estate, founded by the late John Njiru Mbature in 1958.

From the roaster

SEY describes this fully traceable SL28 separation with blackberry, rooibos and candied grapefruit.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

SEY’s first fully traceable single-producer Kenyan SL28 separation, with farm, family, cultivar, harvest, altitude, and post-harvest steps documented.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact identity

Confirmed Kenya, Embu, Kamavindi Estate, Mbature Family, SL28, washed processing, 1,680 meters, and September 2024 harvest.

02
Documented post-harvest work

Recorded both dry-fermentation stages, repeated washing, channel density sorting, and staged raised-bed drying.

03
Corrected unsupported grading

Changed the formal grade from Specialty to Not specified because the exact-release sources do not publish a grade.

04
Separated coverage from scoring

An exact independent researched profile exists, but it explicitly reports no tasting and no sourced cup score, so no sentiment rating was created.

What was added?

September 2024 harvest plus complete origin, producer, variety, fermentation, drying, and tasting-note context.

What wasn't added?

No formal grade, retail bag price, roast label, or public sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now describes the exact SL28 separation with its documented evidence and clearly marks the remaining limits.

What you might taste

Blackberry, rooibos, and candied grapefruit, as reported by SEY.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-mbature-family-kamavindi-estate-sl28-kenya
  • · https://robusta.co/coffees/sey-2025-mbature-family-kamavindi-estate-sl28-kenya/
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 2026-10-13) 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

Method: exact coffee name, roaster, cultivar, and crop/release identity were required. Robusta.co’s exact profile was excluded because it explicitly says the coffee was not tasted and no sourced quality score was found. Retail copies with zero reviews and non-cup evidence indexes were also excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Kamavindi Estate →Meet the farmer: Mbature family →
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