Ethiopia Natural // Guji

Guji is a beautifully forested area in southern Ethiopia. Before the early 2000's, this region was considered part of Sidama, but has since become its own region. The people of Guji grow coffee gardens at very high altitudes in the rich red soil of the highlands, setting this coffee's profile apart from neighboring regions. These smallholders deliver their coffee to washing stations to be sorted and processed together, developing flavors of fruits, deep chocolate, and light florals.

Arsosala is a washing station founded in 2015 that currently serves about 1,200 smallholder producers in the Uraga woreda of Guji. 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. We do, however, make every available effort to source coffee from the same washing stations every year, through our export partners and their connections with mills and washing stations

TASTING NOTES // COCOA, HIBISCUS, WHITE GRAPE

Washing Station // Arsosala
Process // Natural
Region //  Oromia, Guji, Ethiopia
Varietals // Ethiopian Heirloom

Fulfillment Schedule: We roast to fulfill online orders Monday-Thursday. Orders placed over the weekend will be fulfilled on Monday.