Yirgacheffe Estate Premium Coffee Beans - Top Choice for Pour-Over Coffee: Washed Yirgacheffe

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East Africa・Ethiopia Washed Yirgacheffe Selected Beans

Yirgacheffe, with its distinctive personality, boasts bold floral aromas and lemon acidity.

Its rich layers perfectly interpret coffee's flavor profile, creating an illusion similar to tea when tasted.

Therefore, many people also say that Yirgacheffe is like a soft and pleasant fruit tea, and it has been beautifully described by the Japanese as the queen of coffees.

Yirgacheffe is a high-quality Arabica bean with unique and bright fruity sweetness and acidity.

The washed Yirgacheffe, with its rich berry sweetness and fragrance, invites you to taste it together.

Product Details

Product: Ethiopia Washed Yirgacheffe Kochere G1 Roast Level (#3)

Region: Yirgacheffe Kochere

Variety: Typica & Heirloom (local native varieties)

Production: Collection of numerous small coffee farmers

Altitude: 1800 to 2000 meters

Grade: Washed (rated as G1, the highest grade by ECX)

Annual Rainfall: 1400-1800mm

Soil: Red composite color

Flavor Characteristics: Jasmine, orange, caramel, grape, vanilla, honey, and floral notes

Mouthfeel: Clean and balanced, with a lingering, lively, and varied fruity sweetness in the aftertaste.

Introduction

Kochere is located in the Gedeo region of southern Ethiopia. This area governs the relatively well-known Yirgacheffe and Kochere regions. Because the coffee produced in Yirgacheffe has special, unique flavors and is widely loved, it forms its own category in product classification and has always held a place in the global specialty coffee market.

Yirgacheffe itself is a small town located in the Sidama province, with three neighboring small producing areas: Wenago, Kochere, and Gelena Abaya. Because the coffee flavors produced are almost on par with Yirgacheffe, Kochere is also classified under the Yirgacheffe region. In November 2009, Ethiopia implemented a new trading and grading system. In addition to Yirgacheffe, three sub-regions were added: Wenago, Kochere, and Genlena/Abaya, indicating that the flavors of these three regions are extremely delicate and can be further subdivided.

Kochere is a small producing area located about 25 kilometers southeast of Yirgacheffe. The harvested coffee beans come from local small-scale coffee farmers, forming a collective of numerous individual small coffee farmers. These small farmers have an average coffee cultivation area of about 1 hectare, with planting altitudes of approximately 1800-2000 meters. The main coffee varieties are a mix of Typica and Heirloom (local native varieties). Because this region has relatively advanced green bean water processing equipment, it has always demonstrated high-level performance in the field of washed processing, praised for its clean sweetness with complex notes of honey and citrus.

The main local production model involves small coffee farmers directly delivering each harvest of red cherries to nearby cooperative washing stations for unified processing. Ethiopia introduced washed processing technology in the 1970s, and currently the Kochere region primarily uses washed processing for its green beans. After the washing plants screen and grade red cherry-colored coffee fruits, they directly remove the pulp for washed fermentation. After washing, the parchment green beans are placed on racks to naturally dry in the sun. When the humidity reaches 12% or below, they are directly sent to the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) warehouse in Awassa. Cupping grading and quantity are typically conducted, and washed beans are usually stored in parchment form until hulling is performed before export.

This batch of Kochere has been rated as G1, the highest grade by ECX. From the appearance of green beans, consistency, freshness to dry aroma and flavor, it is quite excellent. The aroma performance is very rich, carrying the regional characteristics of Yirgacheffe, emitting an elegant and captivating flower-like perfume fragrance. Floral notes, bright citrus fruit acidity, lemon, berries, and honey's sweet and sour aroma emerge. Jasmine, orange, caramel, grape, vanilla, honey, and floral notes create a clean and balanced mouthfeel, with a lingering, lively, and varied fruity sweetness in the aftertaste.

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