$13 per lb

Peach, Yuzu, Jasmine, Orange Zest, Bright

Producer: Habtamu Getu

Location: Gedeb

Varietal: Heirloom

Process: Washed

Elevation: 2100 masl

FOB Cost: $4.65lb

Our Cost: $6.00lb (tariffs included)

This coffee is a prime example of hard work and attention to detail from a collective of farmers coming together for a common purpose of creating an amazing and high quality coffee. Bright and busting with florals and fruit, with clear and clean acidity.

The Banko Gotiti washing station is located in Reku, a sub-area of Banko Gotiti, and is overseen by Habtamu Getu, who manages cherry supply and processing operations for Siz Agro. The site receives cherry from a few hundred individual smallholders, each averaging 1-2 hectares apiece of farmland. On these farms coffee typically shares the land with enset—a fruit-less relative of the banana tree whose pulp is scraped and packed into cakes, fermented underground, and then toasted as kocho, a staple starch in the area.

Washed coffee at Banko Gotiti is processed simply and with great attention to detail: fresh-picked cherry is delivered each day by contributing farmers and hand-sorted upon arrival for uniformity and ripeness. Once sorting is complete, cherry is weighed and logged, and then depulped and fermented overnight in fresh water, rinsed again with fresh water the next morning, and taken directly to raised beds to dry, a process that typically takes 15-18 days. During the drying period the coffee is constantly rotated during the day and covered at night to prevent the area’s humidity from settling on the coffee's brittle parchment. Fully dried parchment is transported to Addis Ababa for final milling and export.