2019 Harbegona - Ethiopia

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Sidama

Tasting notes

Please note that weekly orders are roasted onRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. Tuesday and shipped on Wednesday.  This coffee is intensely aromatic, with exquisite florals of violet and jasmine that open up to vanilla, peach and ripe melon. It is delicate and elegant with a bright, lively acidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it.. Region: Bensa, Sidamo Varietal: Ethiopian LandraceHeirloom (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: 2,300 masl Harvest: January 2019 Processing: Harvested at peak ripeness. Floated. Depulped. Wet fermented for 18-24 hours. Dried on raised beds for 15-20 days. ABOUT HARBEGONA Bensa, Sidama has proven itself to be an outstanding region for high quality coffee production. Harbegona comes to us under the careful oversight of Helleanna Georgalis and is an exquisite representation of this region. Our goal in Ethiopia is to begin developing relationships with individual producers, which will allow for much better physical and financial transparency. We could not be more excited for our first trip to Ethiopia this coming winter! ABOUT ETHIOPIAN LANDRACE Ethiopia is widely acknowledged as where coffee originated, and its production continues to represent about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. DNA testing has confirmed over 60 distinct varieties growing in Ethiopia, making it home to the most coffee biodiversity of any region in the world. Given the tradition of coffee production in Ethiopia and the political interworkings of the Ethiopian coffee trade, it is virtually impossible to get single 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. coffee lots from Ethiopia. This is changing, albeit very slowly. Most Ethiopian coffees are blends of the many Ethiopian varieties, and referred to simply as 'Ethiopian Landrace'. Contains 250g of delicious coffee.