Ethiopia Boru

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Yirgacheffe

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  50
• Bright
  40

Producer: Tgsit Boru Origin: Beloya, Kochere Varietal: HeirloomHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. Altitude: 1700 metres above sea level Process: 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. Flavours: Toffee, Floral & Blackberry Harvest: Nov- Dec Importer: Covoya Where is it from? Ethiopia is regarded as the birthplace of coffee. The legend of Kaldi, the goat herder that allegedly discovered the effects of the bright red cherries growing wild in the Ethiopian forest, is pervasive. The legend likely bears some resemblance to the truth despite the dramatisation added in the telling of the tale. The fact that Coffee is native to Ethiopia is indisputable; this becomes clear when one walks into the famous forest coffee plantations. Growing happily amongst the native forest are the healthiest and happiest coffee trees you’ll see anywhere in the world. Organic production is widespread in Ethiopia, where in many countries this is completely unviable due to pervasive disease. It may be the diversity afforded by the forest growing environment slows the spread of disease. There are many contributing factors to the uniqueness of Ethiopian coffee ranging from the growing systems to the diversity of varieties. The result is a country filled with coffee that is of some of the best quality in the world. About This Coffee Tgsit Boru is a woman farmer from Beloya, a kebele (village) in Kochere district, Gedio zone. Tgsit, a mother of 6, culviates 2.8ha of land at an elevation of 1,705m.a.s.l. She grows coffee with varities known locally as Kumie, Dega and Wilsho, shaded by native cordia africana, Avacia, Ensete and Ventricosum. This washed coffee includes a 36 hour fermentation followed by sun drying on raised African beds. Growing Coffee in Ethiopia As the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia is home to more species of coffee plants than any place on earth, much of it still growing wild, and much of it still undiscovered. All Ethiopian coffee is Arabica and at least 150 varieties are commercially cultivated. Traditionally, these have simply been labelled as “h