Sl.ow

Apricot Affair, Ethiopia

Apricot Affair, Ethiopia

200 d

Good for espresso

€15,00

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TASTING NOTES

  • Apricot jam
  • Pear
  • Almond

VARIETY
  • 74110
  • 74112
PROCESSING METHOD

Natural

REGION

South America

ALTITUDE

1980–2200 m

MANUFACTURER

Smallholder Farms, Muje Mesina

FOR THE COFFEE

A Grade 1 natural from Muje Mesina washing station in East Guji, where smallholder families grow coffee in their backyards at 1,980–2,200 metres. The cherries are floated, then dried whole on shaded raised beds for 12 to 15 days.

Roasted for espresso as part of our Espresso Program. Jammy and bright as a short black, soft and nutty through milk.

High in East Guji, in southern Ethiopia, a community of smallholder families grow coffee in their backyards. Their harvests come together at Muje Mesina washing station, 17 kilometres from Adola town. The three-hectare station is a shared centre for sorting, processing and drying each season's crop. The coffee grows at 1,980–2,200 metres in red clay soils. Harvest starts in November, with cherries picked by hand. For this natural lot they are floated to remove less dense fruit, then dried whole across 200 shaded beds for 12 to 15 days. The station also gives back. It has built two underground water sources, bringing clean drinking water to local families. Cofinet, our import partner, brought this lot to us.

ABOUT Sl.ow

SL.OW comes from Cambridge, a small town in New Zealand known as the Home of Champions due to the concentration of professional athletes and Olympians who train there. And it is precisely from sports that the bakery's story begins.

The founder Sam Dakin spent a large part of his life on two wheels as a professional track cyclist and represented New Zealand at two Olympics. Years in which everything is measured in hundredths of a second gradually led him to exactly the opposite idea – that outside of sports, he needed to slow down.

Coffee became his way of doing it. Not so much because of the caffeine, but because of the ritual itself – to make coffee, sit down, and for a little while not chase the next task.

In 2022, SL.OW Coffee Roasters was born from this idea. The beginning was quite literally small batch – Sam and Alex King roasted 1 kg on a Bullet in the garage of their apartment in Cambridge. Since then, SL.OW has grown quite a bit, and Jonte Wright has joined Sam, who also comes from professional sports after seven years in elite rowing in New Zealand.

Today, SL.OW works with a rotating selection of single origin coffees and small batches, focusing on clarity and a clearly recognizable taste in the cup. But coffee is only part of the reason we follow them. Music, design, fashion, and quite impressive packaging are also part of SL.OW – their idea is to build a brand that happens to make very good coffee too, rather than just another specialty coffee roastery.

The name probably makes more sense now.

The world moves fast. SL.OW down.

OUR COFFEE SELECTION

With Drekka , we embark on the adventure of roasting specialty coffee with a lot of enthusiasm and desire. As always, we will be uncompromising with selection and quality. #88pointsandabove

Taf Coffee , Athens, is the permanent bakery we have been working with for over five years. They are always present in our selection.

Every month we present one or more guest bakeries , because we believe that one should constantly try new coffees and roasting profiles from the best bakeries in Europe.

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