Introduction to Gesha Village Coffee & Pour-over Ratios Sharing

FrontStreet Coffee - Ethiopia Gesha Village & Pour-over Ratio Introduction

The Origin of Gesha Village Estate

In 2007, documentary director Adam Overton and his photographer wife Rachel Samuel, while filming a documentary about Ethiopian coffee for the Ethiopian government, came across the Gera coffee forest in the Bench Maji region. During this process, they conceived the idea of establishing their own coffee estate and brand.

In 2009, they had the fortune to meet the renowned La Mula estate owner and BOP judge Willem Boot. Willem Boot's vision provided the Overton couple with an opportunity: return to Ethiopia to find the birthplace of Gesha.

Eventually they arrived in Bench Maji, an area in southwestern Ethiopia near South Sudan, where many places are called Gesha Village and is the most likely region to find the original Gesha.

Adam followed Willem Boot to begin "exploring" in the forests surrounding the estate. In a jungle magically enveloped by dense forest, they discovered multiple wild tree species, and to their greatest surprise, they found wild Gesha.

Later they learned that this was the Gori Gesha forest, the place where the Gesha variety was first discovered. So they collected seeds from the native Gesha trees, screened them, and then planted them in Gesha Village. They decided to establish the estate here and named it Gesha Village Coffee Estate - a 475-hectare coffee farm located about 12 miles from the Gori Gesha forest.

Unlike most Ethiopian farms, Gesha Village is not a small farm but a large 500-hectare farm with its own washing station and laboratory. The entire farm only grows Gesha varieties, rather than the typical Ethiopian native varieties where specific cultivars cannot be determined.

Gesha Village Coffee Varieties

Gesha Village has three varieties, each named after the expedition teams that discovered the coffee: Gesha1931, Gori Gesha, and Illubabor provided by the Ethiopian Coffee Research Center.

Gesha1931 was confirmed by observing plant morphology, bean shape and size, as well as cupping. It is the closest to the parent variety of Panama Gesha. The Gori Gesha heirloom variety was collected by the Gesha Village estate owner in 2011 through their own expedition from the Gori Gesha wild coffee forest, 20 kilometers from the current Gesha Village farm, and no duplicate samples have been found elsewhere.

From the beginning, the owners of Gesha Village collected wild Gesha seeds from the Gori Gesha forest for planting and cultivation. After seven years of continuous effort, they continuously extended and cultivated remote wilderness forests, and the 471-hectare Gesha Village coffee farm was born in this woodland.

In fact, unlike most Ethiopian farms, Gesha Village is not a small farm but a large 500-hectare farm with its own washing station and laboratory. The entire farm only grows Gesha varieties, rather than the typical Ethiopian native varieties where specific cultivars cannot be determined.

Pour-over

V60 dripper, water temperature 90°C, grind size BG-5R (Chinese standard 60% pass-through rate for #20 sieve), powder-to-water ratio 1:15, segmented extraction. The respective flavor profiles are as follows:

[Gold Label] Smells of fermented wine aroma, with soft citrus and strawberry acidity upon entry, nut and cream-like sweetness in the middle, sugarcane aftertaste; as the temperature drops, strawberry jam and lemon fragrance emerge.

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