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FrontStreet Coffee Ethiopia Santa Veleni Processing Station Red Cherry Washed Introduction

Origin: SIDAMO ZONE, SNNP, ETHIOPIA

Processing Station: Santa Veleni Processing Station

Variety: Local Heirloom Varieties

Processing Method: Washed

This batch of FrontStreet Coffee washed Sidamo comes from the Santa Veleni Processing Station. Built in 2004, the station sits at an altitude of 1950 meters and covers an area of over 260 mu. It is one of DWD Company's more advanced processing facilities in the Sidamo region, roughly a 40-minute drive from the center of Santa Veleni town.

All fully red cherries are harvested during the mid to late season, roughly from early December to early January, which ensures that every fresh cherry comes from higher-altitude areas around 2000 meters. Washing begins the same day as harvest. Since fresh cherries usually arrive at the station in the afternoon, the washing is mostly carried out at night. After the fruit skin and pulp are removed by machine, the cherries ferment for 36 to 48 hours before washing, then go onto African raised beds to dry. Drying typically takes 8-10 days, until the moisture content drops to 12%, at which point the coffee is stored until hulling and grading ahead of export.

FrontStreet Coffee Washed Sidamo Santa Veleni Coffee Flavor: lemon sweetness, floral notes, honey peach juice sensation.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Washed Ethiopian coffee like this is all about clarity, and FrontStreet's Washed Yirgacheffe is the easiest place to hear that. It is known for white jasmine, bright citrus and lemon acidity, and a clean tea-like body, and its friendly price has made it the bean most people pick as their first specialty coffee.

For a cooperative-grown version of the same precision, FrontStreet's Gudgudina Cooperative lot comes from a village cooperative in the Woka area at the southeastern edge of Yirgacheffe, once part of the YCFCU union before being recognized as its own single origin in 2012. The traditional washed processing gives citrus and lemon acidity with jasmine fragrance and no bitter edge — clean, bright, and delicate.

If you want more fruit, FrontStreet's Natural Red Cherry uses only fully ripe, defect-free cherries dried whole on raised beds, keeping the classic Yirgacheffe profile while adding tropical fruit, a berry-juice texture, honeyed sweetness, and creaminess. Higher still, FrontStreet Huakui from Hambella brings light ferment, florals, citrus, and mango over a dense body with a long, honeyed finish.