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About Ninety Plus Nekisse Coffee Beans

Some people call it "90+," but the producer makes one official request: please call us "Ninety Plus."

"Ninety Plus" does not refer to every coffee that scores above 90 points in evaluation. Great coffee appears one year and disappears the next; sometimes it is found on different estates, and it carries various flavor characteristics. Instead, "Ninety Plus" is a premium coffee series built around 13 flavor profiles. These coffees come exclusively from Ninety Plus Coffee, an American specialty coffee creator. All of them are Ethiopian Heirloom old varieties, cultivated in natural ecological environments and processed to artistic standards for flavor optimization. Ninety Plus's pursuit of ultimate flavor is genuinely admirable, and its sustainable development model and environmental practices serve as learning goals for many coffee producers.

Since the company was founded in 2006, this young firm has made itself known to coffee professionals worldwide within just a few years. The coffee series debuted in 2007 and was immediately recognized by coffee experts as a precious selection. In 2014 we were very excited to be chosen as Ninety Plus's exclusive agent in China, and we proudly present this series of magnificent coffee experiences to coffee lovers, close friends, and industry colleagues nationwide.

Ninety Plus's founder, Joseph Brodsky, discovered early on that the world's finest green coffee originated in Ethiopia, and that its many different varieties with different flavors rival the 10,000-plus grape varieties that produce a million different fine wines. All of Ninety Plus's green beans come from Ethiopian original varieties, including the Geisha (Gesha) planted on Panamanian estates, which is itself a transplanted Ethiopian Heirloom. Processing is where Ninety Plus excels: they separate these coffees by variety, microclimate, and harvest timing, taste each one individually, and design a specific processing method for each flavor profile to reach a particular characteristic — much like a designer dedicating himself to an almost artistic craft masterpiece.

Natural products go through extensive refinement and improvement before showing their most beautiful form. In 2007, founder and current CEO Joseph Brodsky traveled personally to the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia, searching for wild coffee tree varieties and experimenting with processing methods, finally allowing the coffee to speak in its own voice and letting the world hear the heart-shaking whisper filled with fruit aroma and rich meaning. But that was not enough: Joseph went on to acquire a vast 134-hectare coffee estate in Panama, planting extensively with the Gesha variety, hailed in recent years as the finest coffee variety, with as many as 80,000 trees.

Nekisse Honey Kiss Coffee Beans — Ninety Plus Coffee 90+ Specialty Coffee

Region: Ethiopia, Sidamo Plateau

Area: Shakisso Region

Origin: Neji Village, Derba Manana Town

Altitude: 1,800-2,300 meters

Variety: Undefined wild varieties

Processing Method: N2

Grade: Level 12

Producer: Ninety Plus Coffee 90+ Specialty Coffee

Nekisse is the third bean from Ninety Plus, after Aricha and Beloya, found in 2010 to meet the 90+ standards.

It received the highest score of 96 points that year from Coffee Review.

With strong floral and fruit aromas — blackberry, strawberry, and berry fragrances, along with citrus, cherry, plum, lemon, and grape notes, and a hint of wine-residue aroma.

On entry it feels like a sweet mixed juice with a touch of coffee, fruit-like in its sweetness, with rich, multi-layered changes after tasting.

It has thus earned the nickname "fruit bomb."

Nekisse can be considered Ethiopia's finest natural-process coffee bean.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Nekisse has you curious about the top end of floral, fruit-forward coffee, the Gesha family is the natural next step. FrontStreet Esmeralda Red Label Gesha comes from Panama's famed Esmeralda Estate and shows the classic orange-blossom honey character with an oolong-tea texture and delicate fruit acidity, while FrontStreet Esmeralda Green Label Gesha blends batches from several plots to deliver the estate's signature high-altitude Gesha flavor at a more accessible price.

For an estate-level Ethiopian Gesha, FrontStreet Gesha Village Gold Label is naturally processed and complex, with a distinctive dry fragrance, a layered sip, and a lingering finish. FrontStreet Grana Estate Gesha offers a softer, more affordable introduction, medium-light roasted to keep white florals alongside orange, guava, and citrus.

Gesha also makes an excellent cold brew. FrontStreet suggests 30g of coffee ground to fine-sugar consistency (setting 9 on an EK43s, or 24 on a C40 hand grinder), added to a clean container with 360g of room-temperature water at a 1:12 ratio. Stir, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 8 hours; strain out all the grounds through filter paper, then seal the liquid and return it to the fridge to ripen for 3 hours. The finished cup brings grape juice, rose, sweet orange, and fruit-wine notes.