Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Gotiti Natural Grade 1

Variety: Peaberry 

Process: Washed 

Tasting Notes:  Mango, chocolate and marmalade

Located just south of Yirgacheffe, Gedeb is in the Gedeo Zone. This coffee is called “Yirgacheffe”
because of its flavour profile, as coffees grown in this area are siblings to those grown in
Yirgacheffe. The Gedeb district is home to thousands of coffee-farming families producing some of the
world’s most incredible coffees. Most farmers in the region farm on 1- 5 hectares size of
backyard plot (many count their coffee farms in terms of trees rather than area).
Cultivation methods remain traditional. Coffee is grown as part of an integrated ‘coffee garden’
and intercropped with other food crops. In addition to remaining traditionally intercropped,
most farms are organic by default.
Ripe cherries are delivered to wet mills where they are floated for defects, graded, and then
placed on raised African beds; coffee is shaded between 12-3 pm and frequently turned for
steady drying until it reaches 11.5% in around 20- 30 days.