Coffee for enthusiasts & budding drinkers

There is a version of Kenya that most coffee drinkers never taste. It grows at altitude — between 1,700 and 2,000 metres in the Nyanza region — on a single estate called Alpine. The varieties are storied: SL 28 and …

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over the Nyeri highlands at harvest — the kind that only comes at altitude, above the noise, where the air is thin and the cherries take their time. This is where th…