Landrace - Red Honey - Dinkalem Ademe

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet

Tastes Like: Raspberry, Lemon Twist, Baking Spices Origin: Dinkalem Ademe, Wush Wush, Oromia, Ethiopia 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.: 74110, 74165, 74212, 75210 Producer: Dinkalem Ademe 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. Elevation: 1900 masl Process: Red HoneyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. Dinkalem Ademe has built a reputation for quality at his two wet mills in Keffa (in Wush Wush and Dinbira). He and his wife, Sofia, live nearby in Wush Wush, with Dinkalem overseeing and managing activities at his wet mill there. The 2010 UNESCO declaration naming Ethiopia’s montane forests as biome preserves led to the adoption of a nationwide policy of participatory land management. By incentivizing the responsible economic use of forests for the purposes of agriculture—such as coffee production—the government hoped to protect and preserve remaining forests. At his washing station in Wush Wush, Dinkalem collects cherry from some 2,500 smallholdersSmallholderA 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. who grow coffee in their gardens as well as foragers who harvest wild cherry from the forests of Keffa.