£14.70
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Ethiopia, Sidama
Varietal: 74158
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1,920 – 2,330 masl
Milk Chocolate, Peach, Brown Sugar, Floral
This coffee comes from small plots in the highland area of Arbe Gona which benefits from the very high altitude of 2200 MASL. Arbe Gona is to the west of the Bale Mountains National Park, and this park is home to the Ethiopian Wolf, a rare canid with only 500 thought to be left in the world. Living in packs of 3 - 13 they, unlike other species of wolves around the world, live primarily on rodents; hunting grass rats and other small mammals alone and not with their pack. In Arbe Gona, coffee is the main cash crop in this area, though many other crops grow here such as sugar cane, False Banana, spices and vegetables. Cherries are sorted based on density and quality by floating them in large water tanks. After flotation, the cherries are transferred to African raised beds with mesh nets.
