Description
Notes: Mango, White Tea, Florals
Elevation: 1,900-2,300 MASL
Varietal: 1974-1975 JARC selections, and indigenous landraces
Region: Worka Chelbesa, Gedeb, Gedeo, Ethiopia
Producer: Negusse Debela | SNAP Specialty Coffees
Color: Agtron 66 Whole Bean | 104 Ground | 11.2% Weight Loss
About
Better late than never! Our Ethiopian coffees have finally arrived after being delayed due to the conflict in the middle east that shut down shipping routes. Hello Cape of Good Hope. Alas.
We're excited to showcase this coffee because, well, it's just a good one. What we love about it is it combines the things we love in both washed and natural Ethiopians - citrus and florality, plus bigger fruit and body - without the funk that we sometimes taste in super-long fermentations. This coffee isn't as delicate as some Ethiopians are. It's a little louder and that's what we love about it!
More About The Coffee
Danche is the washing station in Gedeb, and while the natural is, well, a natural, Marcelo is named after the station manager.
Ethiopia's the birthplace of coffee, with unparalleled genetic diversity, plus unique terroir and processing that can produce super floral, citric washed coffees and the cleanest, juiciest, most berry- and tropical-forward naturals.
Over the past couple years, Snap (owner of the Danche Washing Station) has given its washing station managers the opportunity to experiment a bit with processing, and deviate a bit from the traditional washed and natural profiles. In this case Marcelo, one of the employees at Danche, pioneered a weird take on the washed process, keeping the coffee in-cherry, but in a sealed, cool environment, for 5 full days before undergoing a more typical washed process. Risky, but it works.
