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🇰🇪Kenya · Embu

2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL34 - Kenya

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsKenya Embu SL34 Washed Plum Honeysuckle Arabica Single origin Kamavindi Estate Mbature family Sey Coffee Independent

🇰🇪KenyaWashedSL34

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇰🇪Kenya

Region

Embu

Town

—

Farm / Station

Kamavindi Estate

Farmer / Producer

Mbature family

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

SL34

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

Yellow Plum, Pomegranate, Honeysuckle

Fermentation

Dry-fermented 18–20 hours in darkness, washed repeatedly, then dry-fermented for an additional 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

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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roast levelThe cited exact-release sources do not publish a roast label; no roast level was inferred.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.

01
The name on the bag
2025 Mbature Family; Kamavindi Estate, SL34 - Kenya
Named on the bag
02
The brand
SEY Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Sey Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
SL34
Documented
05
The farm
Kamavindi Estate
Documented
06
The farmer
Mbature family
Documented
07
The region
Embu
Documented
08
The country
🇰🇪Kenya
Documented

From the producer

Kamavindi Estate was founded by John Njiru Mbature in 1958 and is managed by the Mbature family, who control estate processing and lot separation.

From the roaster

SEY frames this as its first fully traceable, single-producer SL34 separation from Kenya, developed through years of collaboration with the Mbature family.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

SEY’s first fully traceable single-producer Kenyan SL34 separation, with exact farm, family, cultivar, harvest, altitude, and post-harvest documentation.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the exact identity

Confirmed Kenya, Embu, Kamavindi Estate, Mbature Family, SL34, washed processing, 1,680 meters, and September 2024 harvest.

Documented post-harvest work

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

Corrected unsupported grading

Changed the formal grade from Specialty to Not specified because the exact-release sources do not publish a grade.

Kept sentiment separate

An exact independent researched profile was located, but it supplies no qualifying tasting score or review, so no public sentiment rating was created.

What was added?

Complete origin, producer, cultivar, harvest, 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 profile now represents the exact SL34 separation rather than a generic Kamavindi lot.

What you might taste

Yellow plum, pomegranate, and honeysuckle, as reported by SEY.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-mbature-family-kamavindi-estate-sl34-kenya
· https://robusta.co/coffees/sey-2025-mbature-family-kamavindi-estate-sl34-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. The exact independent researched profile supplies no tasted or sourced quality score; its editorial-interest indicator is not cup quality and was excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

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

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