Ethiopia Yirgacheffe

Roasted Light Grower 396 smallholder farmers organized around the Banko Chelchele washing station Altitude 1900 – 2100 masl Variety Indigenous landraces and locally selected cultivars Soil Vertisol Region Banko Chelchele Kabele, Gedeb Woreda, Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region Process Fully washed and dried on raised beds Harvest November - January Certification Conventional   The municipality of Gedeb itself is a is a bustling outpost that links commerce between the Guji and Gedeo Zones, with an expansive network of processing stations who buy cherry from across zone borders. These processors (and we would agree) would argue their coffee profiles are not exactly Yirgacheffe, but something of their own. Coffees from this community, much closer to Guji Zone than the rest of Yirgacheffe, are often the most explosive cup profiles we see from anywhere in Ethiopia. Naturals tend to have perfume-like volatiles, and fully washed lots are oft