Rogicha

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Guji

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  50
• Bright
  40

Lilac aroma with sweet, silky Oolong tea character and flavors including Muscat grape, jasmine, lychee, apricot, wheat toast and roasted nut. Remarkably akin to sipping a bottled Japanese tea. This knock-out of a washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. Ethiopian coffee is produced by the cooperative group of smallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. farmers at the Rogicha Washing StationWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee. within the Rogicha Kebele of Guji in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Their rich tradition at their cooperative for ripe cherry harvesting combined with new processing equipment at their wet mill has rendered this stellar cup. After repose, this coffee is sealed in Grain-Pro barrier packaging at origin and then sent on its way to our Roastery where we preserve the green coffeeGreen coffeeUnroasted coffee seeds as they are traded and shipped. Roasters buy green and roast locally; 'green buying' is the sourcing side of the craft. under hermetic seal until it is roasted as part of our Barrington Green Seal Program© . Origin- Ethiopia Region- Oromia Locality- Guji Mill- Rogicha Washing Station Producer- Rogicha Co-Op Smallholders Altitude- 7218’ VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.- Ethiopian LandraceHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. Varieties Process- Washed & Sun DriedNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. on Raised Beds Roast- Light