Starbucks to offer its first coffee grown in Rwanda

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE -- Starbucks Corp. announced Tuesday that it will soon start selling its first Rwandan-grown coffee in North American stores.

Rwanda Blue Bourbon is the company's 10th variety in the Black Apron Exclusives line of high-end coffees produced in limited quantities. Half-pound fuchsia foil bags in decorative black boxes will sell for $12 in the United States and $16 in Canada, beginning March 13.

Starbucks, the world's largest specialty coffee retailer, said it decided to start buying beans from the central African nation after visiting it in 2004 to gauge its potential as a premium coffee supplier.

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