Peach Tea • White Grape • Meyer Lemon

Varietal - 74112 Landrace

Process - Extended Fermentation Washed

Region - Yirgacheffe, Gedio zone

Altitude - 1950-2300 masl

This comes to us from our importing partners at Falcon Coffee. Clean, bright, crushable. This Ethiopian landrace varietal out of Yirgacheffe is balanced and easy-drinking. When warm, we taste white grape and meyer lemon. As it cools, refreshing qualities of peach tea and orange combine in harmony with a light body. We love this coffee for its classic washed Ethiopian characteristics and vibrant flavor properties.

Coffee cherries are harvested and washed to remove the skin from the cherry. They are then steeped in fresh spring water for 24 to 48 hours (depending on the weather conditions) in order to eliminate the remaining sugar coating on the cherries (mucilage). When fermentation is complete, the coffee is next shade-dried for a few days until it reaches 30 percent moisture content, then sun-dried to 11 percent moisture content on raised African beds. In this technique, the coffee is dried for 2 weeks.

Producer Profile

Gedeb Banko Taratu, is located in the southern part of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Gedeb District within the Gedio zone and is one of the highest elevated coffee-growing areas in Ethiopia with a pick altitude of 1900- 2300 meters above sea level where this coffee is grown and prepared. The annual rainfall is between 1200mm-1599mm. The harvest period is between October -January. The variety of this coffee is Indigenous heirloom. The coffee is named after the town itself.

In Banko Taratu coffee is grown near the farmers' homes Garden and is mainly grown on a small plot of land, coffee is grown from large trees near homes. The coffee has a low overlap of 1000-1800 trees per hectare. It is grown with natural fertilizers. Coffee is one of the very important things for the Banko Taratu community and it’s a home for many coffee farmers’ families producing, also these areas are some of the most popular and well-known growing regions in the coffee world. They also grow false bananas on the coffee farm to feed themselves and their families.