Variety: Indigenous Cultivars
Altitude: 1900 - 2100 meters
Harvest Period: October - January
Process: Fully natural, dried on raised beds

The district of Gedeb takes up the south-eastern corner of Ethiopia’s Gedeo Zone—a narrow section of plateau dense with savvy farmers whose coffee is known as “Yirgacheffe”, after the zone’s most famous district.

Coffees from the community, much closer to Guji than the rest of Yirgacheffe, are often the most explosive cup profiles we see from anywhere in Ethiopia.

These processors (and we would agree) would argue their coffee profiles are not exactly Yirgacheffe, but something of their own.

This lot comes by way of the independent Banko Gotiti washing station, owned and operated by Birhanemeskel Abera, who manages 650 individual farmers who sell cherry to the station. 

Natural process coffees are hand sorted upon delivery and then dried carefully in the cherry fruit on raised beds for 15-21 days.

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