ROAST LEVEL: LIGHT

TASTING NOTES: -LEMON-PEACH-BERGAMOT-SWEET

GROWER: Smallholder farmers organized around the Banko Gotiti Cooperative

REGION: Banko Gotiti village, Gedeb district, Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region, Ethiopia

PROCESS: Washed and dried on raised beds 

VARIETY: Indigenous landraces and locally selected cultivars

ALTITUDE: 1600 - 2300 Meters

SOIL: Vertisol

Gotiti is a municipality located near the center of the coveted Gedeo Zone—the narrow section of highland plateau dense with savvy farmers and fiercely competitive processors whose coffee is known the world over as “Yirgacheffe”, after the zone’s most famous district, Yirga Chefe. The Gedeo Zone is named for the Gedeo people who are indigenous to this area. As a coffee terroir, Gedeo, or “Yirgacheffe”, has for decades been considered a benchmark for beauty and complexity in arabica coffee. It’s known for being beguilingly ornate and jasmine-like when fully washed, and seductively punchy and sweet when sundried, and hardly requires an introduction.  

Farms in this area are quintessentially tiny, averaging less than a single hectare per family. Despite the diminutive size, farmland is typically divided between coffee, subsistence crops for the families, and items for the regional markets such as livestock, cabbage, or enset, a fruit-less relative of the banana tree whose pulp is fermented and then toasted as a staple food.