Ethiopia

Rocko Mountain Decaf - Ethiopia

250g

Cup Notes

Forest fruits / Macadamia / Lemon / Milk chocolate suggested for espresso

Swiss Water Decaf
QUALITY SCORE: 84.50


when we roast

We freshly roast to order all coffees on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (excluding national holidays), and ship the same day! Cut-off time is 11:59pm (UTC+1) of the day before the roast day. *We only ship whole beans*

Details

Producer
Several small farmers
Country
Ethiopia
Terroir
Yirgacheffe
Altitude
1950-2150 mt
Picked in
January 2017
Shipped in
Jute + GrainPro
Roast profile by
Rubens Gardelli

THE STORY BEHIND

The town of Yirgacheffe is located in the Gedeo zone in the Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS) in Southern Ethiopia. Processing in Yirgacheffe can take the form of both washed and natural, with most of the coffee grown at over 2000 metres above sea level. Much of the coffee grown in Ethiopia is cultivated using traditional methods, under shade trees alongside other crops and without the use of chemicals. Coffee from Yirgacheffe is often referred to as ‘garden coffee’, as it is grown on very small plots, often in the back yard of small dwellings.

Working in partnership with Addis Exporter, a business with more than 100 years experience in exporting high quality coffee from Ethiopia, we have selected a natural processed coffee from smallholders based in Haricha Woreda, Yirgacheffe. These smallholder farmers have hand-picked their cherries and sold them to a local trader who oversees the processing and sorting before selling the beans to the ECX who grade according to SCA standards. Addis Exporter then purchase the top quality lots from the ECX and select the best for us to sample and select.

THE VARIETY

Ethiopian Heirloom, why the generic name? It's estimated that there are somewhere in-between six and ten thousand coffee varietals in Ethiopia. And due to this colossal figure, there hasn’t been the genetic testing to allow buyers to distinguish the varietal. With the cross pollination that naturally happens in the wild, the name ‘Ethiopian Heirloom’ exists as a catch all phrase to describe this happenstance. However, that really makes Ethiopian quite a mystery – and an interesting mystery with that as each village or town could potentially have a different varietal which could carry very unique properties.

Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, meaning it was only naturally found here!