Ethiopia Supernatural

LIMITED RELEASE LIGHT ROAST 10oz. whole bean coffee Natural process  Flavor A balanced, aromatic and unmistakably Yirgacheffe natural: bright berry and floral character up front, cocoa for backbone, and a clean sweet close. Blueberry and grape notes, cherry sits underneath, rose comes through in the aroma and milk chocolate closes it out. Clear acidity and a light ferment that stays in balance. Info This is a small farm grown, centrally processed anaerobic natural from Ethiopia’s Gedeb district, in the south-eastern corner of the Gedeo Zone (officially “Yirgacheffe”). The coffee cherries are delivered to the Banko Chelchele washing station run by EDN Ethiopian Coffee, an independent processor and exporter with sites in Guji, Gedeb and Sidama. A few hundred outgrowers, each farming an average of 1-2 hectares of diversified, largely organic and regenerative plots between 1,900 and 2,000 masl, supply the ripe cherry for this lot. “Supernatural” is EDN’s name for coffees whose whole cherry is fermented before drying: here the coffee cherries are sorted for uniform ripeness and color, fermented in tanks for about 24 hours in full cherry, then moved straight to raised screen beds to sun-dry for two to four weeks. That pre-drying ferment gives the cup an acidic, fruity kick that conventional naturals rarely reach. Gedeb sits much closer to the Guji Zone than the rest of Yirgacheffe, and its coffees are among the most explosive profiles seen anywhere in Ethiopia: heady, perfume-like volatiles over a candy-sweet structure.