Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Adado

Origin: Ethiopia, Yirgacheffe Variety: Heirloom Ethiopian Varieties Altitude: 1789–1860 MASL Process: Natural Notes: Dried Lavender Kahlua with Boozy Acidity Dried Cascara This coffee comes from our washing-station partners at Adado, which is in the kebele, or village, of Shara ...Origin: Ethiopia, Yirgacheffe Variety: Heirloom Ethiopian Varieties Altitude: 1789–1860 MASL Process: Natural Notes: Dried Lavender Kahlua with Boozy Acidity Dried Cascara This coffee comes from our washing-station partners at Adado, which is in the kebele, or village, of Shara, in the woreda,or district, of Guanga, in the Yirgacheffe region. This coffee is named after the local tribe, "Adado." In these coffees, typically apricots and peaches with supportive citrus and floral higher tones come together in a delightful cup. 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.

Typically farmers in this region don't have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee.