Ethiopia Chelbesa Organic Dry Process

This coffee comes from the wet mill in Chelbesa, a town within Gedeb (which, for those who enjoy Russian doll descriptions, is an area within Yirgacheffe). It's an organic Grade 1 coffee composed of heirloom cultivars, the types of shrubs that once grew wild in Ethiopia's coffee forests. Like most of the origin's better brews, this one comes from loads of small outgrowers, farmers who grow a smattering of trees on their property and submit their harvests to local mills. The processing entailed a weeks-long period of careful sun drying, resulting in some fantastic fruit-forward tones.