Roast: Light Roast
Vibrant, sweet, fruity, floral, & wild. Notes of: wine, watermelon, grape, and wine.
This Natural Anaerobic from Guji is wild and sweet. Guji, a coffee-growing region that was once part of Yirgacheffe but whose microclimate produces such unique coffee, that it was distinguished as its own unique coffee growing region. We roasted it light, and the tasting notes from our importer are: wine, watermelon, grape, and wine.
In the cup we found this coffee vibrant, sweet, fruity, floral, & wild in a great way. A green jolly rancher candy like sweetness up front with a juicy body and a red wine supernova of a finish. On other extractions the watermelon really shone through.
Guji is one of the zones in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Approximately 402 farmers in the village of Suke deliver cherry to the Uraga washing station in Guji. The average altitude of the farms in the area is around 2,000 - 2,100 masl. The washing station houses over 200 raised beds for drying coffees and can be full at once during the heightened harvest season.
Uraga station employees select only ripe, red cherries for Anaerobic Natural processing. The sealed, oxygen free environment encourages controlled microbial interactions, resulting in bright, fruity Naturals with complex floral and citrus notes.
The mill is owned by Israel Degfa, who owns 12 other washing stations and a farm in the region. The washing station serves 2500 members in the surrounding community (also called Uraga), most of whom are smallholder farmers. Coffee in Ethiopia is generally brought to collection stations, where it is hand-sorted for quality and mixed with the harvest of other farms.
Region: Guji, Ethiopia
Elevation: 2000-2100 m
Process: Natural Anaerobic
Varietal: Ethiopian Heirloom
