Current lot: Ethiopia · Sidama · Natural
Our house coffee for filter brewing. A fixed place on the shelf, always filled with a fresh lot chosen to shine in V60, Chemex, AeroPress, and pour-over. The coffee changes, the standard stays: clean sweetness, defined body, and a cup you drink slowly.
Tasting notes: Apricot, vanilla, elderflower.
LOT DETAILS
Origin: Ethiopia
Region: Sidama
Station: Ayla, village of Shantawene
Process: Natural
Variety: Heirloom, native Ethiopian varieties
Elevation: 1950 to 2150 m
THE STORY OF THIS LOT
Ayla is a washing station in the village of Shantawene, in the heart of the Sidama region, run by Testi Coffee, a family-owned business. It takes in cherries from hundreds of smallholders in the area, who grow coffee on tiny plots, almost gardens, with no fertilizers or pesticides. Here the coffee is natural: the whole cherry dries in the sun on raised beds for one to three weeks, turned constantly. That process concentrates the sweetness and gives Sidama the character that makes it one of Ethiopia's finest grades- high elevation, fertile soil, and slow ripening, in the country that is the birthplace of arabica.
THIS COFFEE IS FOR YOU IF
You want a sweet, comforting filter, not aggressive acidity.
You like an Ethiopian natural with body and chocolate notes.
You drink your coffee black and want caramel and praline in the cup.