Malawi – Satemwa

Satemwa is a 3rd generation family-owned Tea and Coffee Estate in the Shire Highlands of Malawi established in 1923. For nearly 100 years they have been making teas and coffees with love, passion and respect for the environment and communities around us. They believe in contributing to improving Malawi’s standard of living by crafting quality products.

Interspersed between Satemwa’s coffee fields are riverine forest areas that play an important role in the protection of indigenous fauna and flora in the Southern Highlands of Malawi, where population pressure has decimated all but a few isolated pockets. The non-coffee trees planted are selectively chosen: ‘cold’ trees are chosen over ‘hot’ trees so as not to compete with the coffee, they should produce the right sort of shade, offer nesting for birds, attract butterflies and other fauna, and positively impact the soil.

Satemwa’s coffees are all hand picked and hand sorted to ensure the cherries are ripe, so that they will produce sweet, aromatic coffees. After channel grading, coffee is sun dried over 15-30 days to achieve a moisture content of 11-12%.