A delicate and floral coffee with flavour tones of peach, raspberry and black tea. Hint of liquorice. Perfect with dark chocolate.
COUNTRY: Ethiopia
REGION: Guji
ALTITUDE: 2250-2300 MASL
PROCESS: Washed
About The Coffee & Farm
This coffee comes from Uraga – a woreda in the Guji zone, where coffee is grown on very small farms (less than 1/2 hectare each on average) alongside corn, barley, beans, and wheat. Both Washed and Natural coffees are produced at the Uraga washing station.
According to the washing station manager, most of the coffee delivered to the factory is Bourbon: While Bourbon is a variety better-known in Central and South America, the same term is used colloquially in Ethiopia to describe certain coffee-berry-disease-resistant cultivars. The Ethiopian “Bourbon” is typically genetically removed from the ones found elsewhere around the world.
Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.
Typically farmers in this region don’t have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee.
