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Introduction:
Our favorite origin of all time ran out a few months ago and we've been patiently waiting for our new season to arrive. When it landed we threw a party. When we roasted it we threw another party and now that we can offer it to you we want to bring the party to you! Everything you want and hope for in that blueberry, winey chocolatey cup is here in abundance.
Cupping Notes:
Blueberry, Cherry, Cacao
Importer Farm Information:
Arsosala is a washing station founded in 2015 that currently serves about 1,200 smallholder producers in the Urga woreda of Guji. Coffees are picked ripe and depulped the same day, then fermented overnight before being washed clean and dried on raised beds. It typically takes the coffee 8–15 days to dry under sun and 15–20 days to dry when there are cloudy skies.
Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.
The washing stations serve as many as several hundred to sometimes a thousand or more producers, who deliver cherry throughout the harvest season: The blending of these cherries into day lots makes it virtually impossible under normal circumstances to know precisely whose coffee winds up in which bags on what day, making traceability to the producer difficult. We do, however, make every available effort to source coffee from the same washing stations every year, through our export partners and their connections with mills and washing stations.
Typically farmers in this region don't have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee.
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Guji
Farm: 1200 Small Farm Holders in Urga Woreda of Guji
Variety: Heirloom Ethiopian Varieties
Altitude: 1800-1900 masl
Processing Method: Natural