ETHIOPIA | Yirgacheffe Adado | Heirloom | Natural

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Yirgacheffe

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
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Yirgacheffe, arguably Ethiopia’s most famous coffee growing region, is lush and plentiful. The warm tropical climate, with moderate wet and dry seasons, has become synonymous with delicious coffees. Known for coffees that taste like blueberries, it’s often naturally processed coffees from Yirgacheffe that give people their first experience of a coffee that tastes like more than just ‘coffee’. This coffee comes from the Adado 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., located in the village of Shara. Named after the local tribe, Adado serves as a central processing hub for hundreds of local farmers. Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of 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. will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for. Coffee is then processed, usually 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. or 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., by the washing station and dried on raised beds. Typically farmers in this region don't have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee.