Ethiopia Metad Buku Natural

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Tasting notes

Character

• Bold
  50
• Funky
  20

This lot was dried in the fruit. It delivers the amplified sweetness and abundant dark fruit flavors we expect from a natural-processNatural 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. coffee without muting the intrinsic quality of this 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. 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. or the exceptional terroirTerroirBorrowed from wine: the way a place — soil, altitude, climate, even neighboring crops — expresses itself in the cup, independent of variety and process. of the place where it was grown. Try it with our Ethiopia Metad Buku 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. to see what a difference processing can make.