Muhathi is a five-hectare coffee estate located in Kenya’s Kiambu County. It is owned by Peris Wambui Karugondo, who lives at the estate’s farmhouse, and manages operations with the help of her son Sam Gicho Wambui. Peris and Sam are meticulous and exacting in their approach to both agriculture and processing, to remarkable results in the final cup.

Muhathi is a single parcel within a larger family-owned property, which was inherited by a total of seven siblings on their parents’ passing and divided into various plots. Over the years, we have purchased coffee from three of them: Dagitu, Muhathi and Ndocha. Each shamba (Swahili for farm) is run independently and coffees are processed at a shared wet mill (or factory, as they are known in Kenya) which was built by their father in the 1980s. The siblings pick cherries and process them on alternate days, in order to market and sell their coffees as separate lots.