Ethiopia Koke Violet
Region: Yirgacheffe
Elevation: 1900 m.a.s.l
Process: Natural
Variety: Heirloom
Roast Level: Light
Lot: Masako
Cup profile: Mandarin Orange, Red Apple, Mango
Recommended for Pour Over / Americano / Latte
When you visit a coffee farm, you expect to see lush coffee trees with a lot of
leaves, all planted in neat rows for maximum efficiency, and well pruned for
increased yields. But should you visit the forest in Koke, you might find your
jaw drop, just a little. The trees are lanky, they’re thin and have several trunks
extending from the ground. They are not so much planted as much as they
grow wherever they choose to spawn from the earth.
This was the visual definition of wild coffee: natural mutations of Arabica trees
that speckle the wild forest that grows dense and overhead around the hills
surrounding the washing stations. Red dirt roads lead the way to raised drying
beds that sit where the land allows it to be flat, while the sun beams down
across the low humid, dry air, infusing the flavours of the cherry into the green
bean, creating what we inevitably know will be incredibly delicious tasting
coffees. Coffee grown from unpruned, unplanted, wild varietal trees.
In 2022 we extended the range of carbonic maceration processing done at
Konga washing station and are proud to now be exploring an uncommonly
made naturally processed Diamond profile as well as our first Indigo profile
from this region. Each year, we offer gemstone profiles that reflect the harvest
