ETHIOPIA GUJI - KALACHA GUDINA (10 oz)

Tasting Notes: Lemon, stone fruit, berries, citrus blossom, candy-sweet

Certifications: Fair Trade, Organic

Varietal: Indigenous heirloom

Process: Washed

Elevation: 1800 – 2200 meters above sea level 

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With perfume-like florals and flavors of nectarine and mango, this lot from the beloved Guji zone is produced by Kalacha Gudina, a small but historic cooperative first founded in the 1990s and now part of the greater Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, the largest unionization of coffees farmers in Ethiopia. Farmer members contributing to Kalacha Gudina are quintessential Ethiopian family farms.

Washed coffee is produced very straightforwardly at the coop. Cherry is picked daily during harvest and delivered to the coop by individual farmers. All cherry is sorted on arrival for imperfections and uniform ripeness. Coffee is depulped and fermented overnight in open tanks, and then washed clean and soaked in fresh water before being transferred to the raised drying tables. The parchment coffee dries in the sun for an average of 2 weeks, after which it is brought into the local warehouse for storage, prior to being transported to Addis Ababa for final dry milling and export.