ROAST LEVEL: LIGHT

TASTING NOTES: BLUEBERRY-RASPBERRY-BLACK CHERRY-DARK CHOCOLATE

GROWER: Smallholder farmers organized around the Banko Chelchele processing station

REGION: Banko Chelchele Kebele, Chelchele Woreda, Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region

PROCESS: Full Natural - Dried in the sun

CULTIVAR: Regional cultivars 74110, 74112

ALTITUDE: 1900 - 2300 Meters

SOIL: Vertisol

This coffee comes from smallholders in the Chelchele area, part of the Gedeb district in southern Gedeo Zone, where some of Ethiopia’s most complex and aromatic naturals come from year after year.  Gedeb is a unique area dense with coffee growers and processors.  This coffee was processed at a central site in Chelchele, one of the district’s most prolific coffee areas.

The district of Gedeb takes up the south-eastern corner of Ethiopia’s Gedeo Zone—a narrow section of plateau dense with savvy farmers whose coffee is known as “Yirgacheffe”, after the zone’s most famous district.  The communities surrounding Gedeb reach some of the highest growing elevations for coffee in the world and are a truly enchanting part of the long drive into Guji.  Banko Chelchele is one of the communities in eastern Gedeb and includes numerous local cooperatives, as well as independent processing stations of various types, like this one.