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Ethiopia Aragash Gelcha

Ethiopia Aragash Gelcha

£14.00

Ethiopia Aragash Gelcha

£14.00
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Bergamot
Pomelo
Praline

Citrusy and floral, with just the tiniest hint of praline, this beauty from Ethiopia is brightening up our grey autumn days.

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Ethiopia Aragash Gelcha
Aragash Gelcha’s farm is located in Halo Shashemene village, within Halo Bariti kebele, part of the Gedeb district in the Gedio zone, Eastern Southern Ethiopia. This region is known for producing some of the best coffees in Yirgacheffe. On her 5-hectare farm, Aragash grows coffee as a cash crop alongside false banana and fruit trees to feed her 12 children. In 2018, Ethiopia’s coffee exporting rules were updated, allowing smallholders to directly export their own coffee. Though granted an export license, Aragash has faced many challenges over the last seven years in accessing stable and fair coffee markets due to a range of systemic and logistical barriers. Despite these difficulties, Aragash and her family continue to produce an average of 800kg of green coffee per hectare. During the off-season, the entire family works together to apply best agronomic practices, ensuring the health and sustainability of the farm.

Region:

Yirgacheffe

Producer:

Aragash Gelcha

Processing:

Natural

Varietal (s):

Kurume, 74110

Altitude:

2,150 metres above sea level

Sourcing Partner:

Omwani

Ethiopia Aragash Gelcha
Okay, okay, okay, so I've never made a secret of the fact that I love an Ethiopian, and this one from Aragash Gelcha is no different. It's got the bergamot and citrus you'd expect, although perhaps dialled back a little compared to our previous offerings, set very neatly against the faintest whiff of everyone's favourite chocolate and hazelnut spread. Try it; I think you'll like it.
About Ethiopia
Where it all began, Ethiopia is where coffee was first consumed by humans, albeit as a fruit rather than a beverage.

From wild coffee, harvested in the verdant forest, to garden coffee, grown around the homesteads of smallholder farmers, to vast estates of meticulously but intensively farmed trees, Ethiopia offers a stunningly diverse crop.

Typically harvested between October and February, Ethiopian coffees are often brilliantly fruity and floral, with notes of bergamot, and elegant complexity.

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