Ethiopia - Bensa Segera (Washed)

It’s back! Bensa Segera Washed  Our sensory notes for this year's “washed process” Bensa Logita: Citrus fruit and floral fragrances preface an overall sweet and complex cup having jasmine, lemon & lime character but with undertones of black tea, cardamom, honey and vanilla This is one of our favorite coffees, year after year, by Heleanna Georgalis. From Moplaco's Logita station near the Segera village, in Bensa Sidamo. To process this coffee using the "washed method", fruits were selected from local farmers surrounding Moplaco's Logita station, at an altitude of about 2100 meters above sea level. The fruits were depulped using a disc-style depulping machine, fermented for 36 hours to loosen up the sticky mucilage covering the seed's parchment, then washed and scrubbed down channels before being moved to elevated beds where they were dried in the sun over the next 11 days. Heleanna Georgalis of Moplaco is known for her relentless commitment to quality. Her farming and processing pr