Myanmar Special Reserve

This beautiful, buttery-smooth cup is the product of two powerful women-owned operations in the central region of Myanmar, farmed at Oat Twin Village by Daw Ma Lar Khaing and processed at Amayar by Ma Su Su Aung and her team.

Oat Twin Village
Located directly east of Ywangan town, the homebase of Shwe Taung Thu co-op and Amayar Women’s Processing Facility, Oat Twin entered Myanmar’s specialty coffee community as one of the original members of Shwe Taung Thu co-op. Ever since, it’s carried on as a community with an amazing women-led leadership team that works on processing and QC with all smallholder farmers, who grow an average of 1/2 acre of coffee trees per family.

Coffee has also become Oat Twin’s top cash crop, with family farms mostly growing the Catuai variety. The community, led by Daw Ma Lar Khaing, now provides for over 350 producing members in the village, with the village nestled at the edge of some higher mountains where most family farms are located.

Amayar
An institution in Ywangan, Amayar supports higher incomes and year-round job opportunities for women and youth. The mountainous areas around Ywangan and Pindaya towns make up the ancestral homeland of the Danu people; together they form the Danu Self-Administered Zone in Shan State. This Zone is also home to the Shwe Taung Thu co-op and each of Ywangan’s coffee-producing villages.

Ma Su Su Aung is the founder of Amayar, a coffee processing facility. She is the fifth generation of a Danu family that’s been involved in coffee since the 1930s, going back to her great-great-great-grandparents. Learning the coffee industry from women in her life, Ma Su Su Aung founded Amayar in 2017 to build and open the first mill and coffee washing station in Ywangan.