Complex fruitiness tone of orange, apricot, Earl Grey tea; with aroma of lemon, tangerine peel; red tea type of ending.
While most of the coffees in Ethiopia comes from a washing station or coop, this coffee came from a single estate. The estate is known as the Mormora Estate. It is located 20 KM from the town of Shakisso. The farm is semi forested and covered by indigenous trees. The estate has been exporting coffee since 2010. Mormora Coffee Plantation is located in the Oromia Regional state, Guji Zone, and Shakisso woreda (and in this case, town). For reference, Shakisso town is 500 km south of Addis Ababa.
Back then, Mormora Coffee PLC had but a small washing station with coffees from their own estate and several nearby small lot holders; they produced at a much smaller scale with limited production capacity compared to the other bigger players. But that didn’t stop Mormora from dreaming big.
For years, Mormora estate held on to quality farming and sagacious business practices, which allowed them to ride the tidal waves when the rise of specialty coffee in the past decade shifted a lot of attention to the livelihood and sustainability of the coffee farmers in the origins. By 2010, Mormora Coffee PLC successfully evolve from a small supplier to a full-load container coffee exporter. It is incomparable to other coffee giants, but that speaks volume of both Mormora’s coffee quality and its consistency.
- Origin: Ethiopia
- Region: Shakisso, Guji zone
- Farm: Mormora Eatate
- Altitude: 1800-2000m
- Cultivar: Hierloom
- Process: Washed
- Grade: G1
- Certificate: USDA Organic, RFA
- Sourcing: Pebble Coffee