2025 Ethiopia • 72hr submerged washed
Tagel Alemayehu & outgrowersKurume & Dega
sencha • green grape • apricot honey
Kurume & Dega varieties grown by smallholders & delivered to Tagel Alemayehu's processing site in Goro, Hambela, Guji. This year marks the return of washed coffee from Tagel, after a pause due to finance issues and high cherry prices last season. The cup profile is bright & sweet, with sencha, green grape & apricot honey-like flavour.
- Variety:
- Kurume and Dega
- Location:
- Guji, Ethiopia
- Harvest:
- December 2024
- Processing:
- Processed as a traditional washed, depulped and submerged fermentation before being rinsed & dried on raised beds.
- Cup Profile:
- bright & sweet with a tea-like body, & flavours of sencha, green grape, & apricot honey.
Tagel Alemayehu & outgrowers
Tagel Alemayehu's Hambela site at 2300 masl in Goro is managed by his brother Asigit & represents the efforts of their network of outgrowers. This year marks the return of washed coffee from Tagel, after a pause due to finance issues and high cherry prices last season.
Kurume & Dega
Kurume & Dega are originally the names of trees (not coffee) indigenous to the South, Kurume known for small fruits with good yield & Dega for its fragrance. Specific local landrace coffees inherited these names from local farmers & then bred by Jimma Agricultural Research Centre in the 1960s.
Processing
Processed as a traditional washed, depulped and submerged fermentation before being rinsed & dried on raised beds.