Equatoria Excelsa

Equatoria Coffee is rebuilding South Sudan’s coffee industry from the ground up - literally. In Nzara and Yambio County, where most agriculture sits below 600 masl, Arabica won’t thrive. So Equatoria turned to Excelsa: a hardy, disease-resistant Liberica relative genetically linked to wild trees sampled in 1919. It’s rare, resilient, and tastes like nothing else. We choose this coffee, because it represents what specialty coffee should be - climate-smart, community-first, and absolutely delicious. Equatoria provides 1,500 farmers with seedlings, training, and direct market access, bypassing exploitative middlemen. They’ve built boreholes, schools, and health centres. They pay fair wages. And they’re proving that coffee can grow where it ‘shouldn’t’. This honey-processed lot gives Marzipan, Honey and Malt flavour notes. It’s a cup of quiet defiance - and a very good reason to pay attention to South Sudan.