Yirgacheffe

TASTING NOTES: Floral aromas lead to notes of raspberry, lavender, and lemon with a delicate body.ROAST LEVEL: LightCOUNTRY: Ethiopia  REGION: Banko Chelchele Kabele, Gedeb WoredaGROWER: Smallholder farmers organized organized around the Banko Chelchele washing station ELEVATION: 1900-2100maslPROCESS: WashedOTHER: Traceable, Single OriginFARM INFOThe municipality of Gedeb is a bustling outpost that links commerce between the Guji Zone and Gedeo Zones, with an expansive network of processing stations who buy cherry from across zone borders. Coffees from this community, much closer to Guji Zone than the rest of Yirgacheffe, are often the most explosive cup profiles from anywhere in Ethiopia. Fully washed lots are often sparklingly clean and fruit candy-like in structure.  The communities surrounding Gedeb reach some of the highest growing elevations for coffee in the world. Banko Chelchele is one of the communities east of Gedeb, part of a greater area known as “Worka”. This dense corner