Rumudamo Natural - Ethiopia

Peach Melba, Cantaloupe Melon, Violet

Producer: Daye Bensa, Rumudamo Village Smallholders

Washing Station: Rumudamo

Country: Ethiopia

Variety: 74112

Process: Natural

We're always excited to have Ethiopian coffees at Established, but the quality of this Daye Bensa produced natural is something special. Big sweetness and fruit notes alongside vibrant acidity and aromatic florals make this an early contender for coffee of the year!

Rumudamo is one of Ethiopia’s highest altitude coffee growing areas, sitting around 2200-2400 masl; these higher altitudes allow for slow ripening of the cherries, bringing more depth and complexity to the final cup. Around 600 smallholder farmers cultivate the 74112 variety across approximately 840 hectares, delivering their cherries to the Daye Bensa operated Rumudamo station. 

Whole cherries are dried on raised beds, usually for around 16 days (but this can extend as far as 20–25 days) before hulling, often producing fruit-driven flavours like blueberry, tropical fruit and tea-like florals. In this lot we're getting sweet stone fruit, ripe melon and clean florals.

The 74112 variety is colloquially known as Serto, but we tend to refer to it by its catalogue number. This is categorised as a JARC cultivar (which stands for the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre), following the Metu Bihari selections in 1974. Serto is widely selected for these days, due to its noted resistance to coffee berry disease and high quality cup profile.

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