Wush Wush

  Tasting Notes: Overripe peach, dried strawberry in light roast; Cola, elephant heart plum in medium roastCupping Score: 93Bean Weight: 12 & 16 oz Let’s begin by saying Wush Wush is unlike any coffee we’ve tasted. In the past 5-7 years it has ranked from No. 3 to No. 14 in the world’s best-rated cuppings. An Ethiopian Grade 1, grown at more than 7,500 feet, It has scored impressively from 96 to 92 points. Compared to the floral, tea-like Geisha’s at $65 per bag, Wush Wush is palate-twisting and evolving cup as it cools.  A 96-hour anaerobic fermentation takes this wild and heirloom plant to a level of complexity rarely found in coffee. The light roast is not for everyone — piquant with a sour-cherry finish — medium roast was loaded with Cola and rich, red plum that was overdue. Your sensory journey will likely be like ours: the roasted beans greet you with earthy flavors of walnut and smoked vanilla leaf; the fourth or fifth day beyond roast date the aroma of wild mixed and fermen