Lot 03 · Farm page
Gori Gesha Forest
Gori Gesha, wild population · Chala Collection Site · Bench Maji, South West, Ethiopia
- Elevation
- 2,050m above sea level
- Harvest
- December
- Served in
- Wide tasting bowl, thin porcelain
In the cup
- Peach skin
- Black tea
- Honeysuckle
- Lime blossom
The lot
- Lot number
- Lot 03
- Variety
- Gori Gesha, wild population
- Farm
- Chala Collection Site
- Producer
- Tesfaye Bekele and 62 forest smallholders
- Region
- Bench Maji, South West, Ethiopia
- Elevation
- 2,050 m above sea level
- Harvest month
- December
- Process
- Natural, 21 days in thin layers, moved into shade between eleven and three
- Soil
- Forest humus over basalt
- Shade
- Standing indigenous forest
- Lot size
- 90 kg green
- Arrival
- Arrived in Hamburg 30 May
- Roast
- Roasted very light, 14 days rest
How we brew it
Pour-over, and the opening cup of the omakase
14 g to 240 g of water at 94 °C, one slow continuous pour
The cup it is served in
Wide tasting bowl, thin porcelain
Arita blank, sanded flat at the rim in the salon
Volume 180 ml
Nearly flat, so the surface is wide and the coffee drops below 60 °C within a minute — which is where this lot opens.
The farm
Nothing here was planted. The trees are a wild population growing under standing forest at two thousand metres, harvested by families who walk in and walk out again the same day.
It is the least predictable coffee we buy and the one we would miss most. We open every tasting with it because it resets the palate: it does not taste like what people expect coffee to taste like.