ETHIOPIA | Banko Gotiti | Heirloom | Natural

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Yirgacheffe

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
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Banko Gotiti 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. serves as a centralized processing facility for many 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 a round the small town of Gotiti . Like much of Ethiopia, the coffees are grown on small, garden-style plots with immediate family members providing the labor necessary during harvest. The washing station offers training to all farmers who deliver their coffee, mostly focusing on harvest and transport procedures. Coffee is a crop that is seldom confined by national and international boundaries, and Bank Gotiti Washing Station is an interesting demonstration of that. Officially, according to political boundaries, the station is in the Gedeo Zone. But the terroirTerroirBorrowed from wine: the way a place — soil, altitude, climate, even neighboring crops — expresses itself in the cup, independent of variety and process., microclimate, and flavor profiles of the coffees delivered to the station are much more reminiscent of a classic Yirgacheffe . This NaturalNatural 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. from Banko Gotiti station is bursting with the delicate florals, jammy berries and warming chocolates we all know and love from Yirgacheffe .