ETHIOPIA Shanta Golba 10 oz

BACKGROUND
Shanta Golba is a washing station in the Bensa region of Sidama Ethiopia, close to Daye Bensa Village. Coffee is harvested November through January. Over 1200 small-holder farmers deliver to this washing station. In addition to coffee, most farmers also grow enset, bananas, oranges, and have various other indigenous natural shade trees covering the property.

Shanta Golba uses strict ripe cherry specifications and typically only uses the middle to end of harvest for the highest grades as these are typically the highest elevation coffees. Coffee usually dries for roughly 18 days due to the use of natural shade trees over the raised beds.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.

Typically farmers in this region don’t have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in their production of coffee.

CUPPING NOTES
Dark chocolate, toffee, rich praline, notes of cascara with a complimenting tangy acidity and good sweetness.