ROAST LEVEL: LIGHT

TASTING NOTES: BLUEBERRY-BLUEBERRY-BLACK CHERRY-

GROWER: Smallholder farmers

REGION: Guji Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

PROCESS: Full Natural

VARIETY: Regional landraces and local heirloom cultivars

ALTITUDE: 1800 - 22— Meters

SOIL: Vertisol

Ethiopia’s Guji zone is a distant and heavily forested swath of land stretching southeast through the lower corner of the massive Oromia region.  Guji is heavy with primary forest thanks to the Guji tribe, a part of Ethiopia’s vast and diverse Oromo nation, who have for generations organized and legislated to reduce mining and logging outfits in their area, in a struggle to conserve the land’s sacred canopy.  

Compared to other coffee-heavy regions, large parts of Guji feel like prehistoric backwoods.  Coffee farms in many parts of Guji begin at 2000 meters in elevation and tend to climb from there.  The highland farming communities in this part of the country can be at turns Edenic in their natural purity, and startlingly remote.