Grapefruit, spice notes, rum chocolate, starfruit . Yirga spice notes, which make a great compliment to the peachy and red fruit tones on the front end of this cup.
Natural Processing
Coffee cherries delivered to the washing station are first separated by hand to remove the less dense cherries. Then the remaining cherry is taken to Koke’s 89 raised beds to dry in the sun, which takes about 21 days. Tarps are often used to keep the coffee from drying too quickly and losing its beautiful and characteristic cup profile. Natural processed coffee dried with cherry is then milled to remove the husks and stored in the dry mill warehouse. Beans are packaged in clearly marked 60kg bags for export.
Washing Station
The Koke washing station is named for the Koke kebele, or town, where it is located in the Yirgacheffe district of the Gedeo Zone. It was built in 2011 and has seen many improvements since 2015, when the washing station staff began providing guidance to contributing producers regarding steps to increase coffee quality.
The Koke station stands on the side of a hill, with coffee grown above and below the station. 96 small scale farmers provided cherries to Koke this harvest, most of them multi-generational family farmers.
- Origin: Ethiopia
- Region: Yirgacheffe
- Washing Station: Koke
- Altitude: 1800m
- Cultivar: Heirloom
- Processing: Natural