Alo Washing Station, Ethiopia

Tamiru Tadesse is a coffee supplier who has been in the coffee business for the last eight years. He works with about 200 farmers in Delo Kebele, Bensa zone of the Sidama region. He collects about 182,000 kilograms of red cherry from an estimated 80 hectares of land owned by the farmers. Tamiru processes anaerobic and natural coffee which is dried on a raised bed with mesh wire. He then sells his coffee on the international market, mostly in China. However, he says, he was interested to have new market destinations and promote the unique flavours of Bensa coffee.

This particular lot is from his own washing station, Alo, grown and managed by Tuke, which is sitting around 2400m above sea level, a very high altitude for coffee! After ripe cherries are picked, they are floated in water to remove defective cherries, then depulped immediately, and dried on raised beds until 10.8% moisture.

All this results with an excellent coffee, with such high quality from the terroir, growing conditions, and excellent processing. This lot sits in the spectrum of the cleanest washed coffees - it's super floral, clean, but low intensity fruit, and lots of notes like pink pepper, or earl grey tea that shine in every brewing method.