Yirgacheffe Red Cherry Coffee Introduction and Overview of Arabica Coffee Varieties

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Operation Cherry Red

Operation Cherry Red is led by Trabocca, a Dutch company, with half of its funding sponsored by the Dutch government. Since 2005, it has collaborated with many small coffee cooperatives, encouraging and assisting producers to improve washed, semi-washed, natural, or other experimental processing methods to enhance coffee quality. Before each harvest season, Trabocca invites selected small farmer organizations/producers to participate in producing micro-batch coffee (approximately 1,500 to 3,000 kilograms), handpicking 100% ripe red coffee cherries in batches (hence the name Operation Cherry Red).

Trabocca provides financial, equipment, and technical resources to assist farmers and commits to purchasing at premium prices if the actual quality meets high-standard specifications. Therefore, Operation Cherry Red is not just a commercial activity that complies with fair trade regulations but also a production activity for high-quality coffee, and even more, an industrial structure reform activity that simultaneously benefits farmers and consumers.

Yirgacheffe is actually composed of surrounding coffee communities or cooperatives, all using washed processing, but there are also a small number of premium beans intentionally processed naturally to enhance their charming fruity aroma and rich body.

In 2008, after the highest quality Mist Valley natural beans were discovered by the United States, they became famous. It is a craft-level work cultivated by a micro-estate, compensating for the insufficient aroma of Yirgacheffe washed beans and developing coffee beans with astonishing aroma that impressed the world! It also received certification from the Operation Cherry Red program. Ethiopian coffee grading includes G1 and G2 for washed beans, with G1 being the highest grade of washed beans, and G3 and G4 for natural beans, with G3 being the highest grade of natural beans.

Arabica Varieties

Among Arabica tree species, the oldest variety is Typica, and another is called Bourbon.

Typica

Flavor Profile: Mild and smooth flavor, with higher body, pure and gentle, with dark chocolate notes, overall balanced.

Representative Countries/Origins: Jamaica Blue Mountain, Papua New Guinea

With careful observation, Blue Mountain Typica has more pronounced upward curves at both ends, with more distinct Typica characteristics and purer flavor. Blue Mountain should be the most classic Typica variety. Currently, many commercial improved varieties originate from this type because Blue Mountain Typica was transplanted from the Typica mother plant cultivated in the greenhouse of the Amsterdam Botanical Garden.

Mandheling - Typica

Flavor Profile: Typical Mandheling coffee is rich and full-bodied, with intense dark chocolate and cocoa flavors, while also carrying earthy, pine, woody, or medicinal notes. It has chocolate flavor and a full body. When lightly roasted, it has slight acidity with a hint of tropical fruit notes.

Representative Countries/Origins: Sumatra, Indonesia

Bourbon

Flavor Profile: Fruity aroma, characterized by rich and varied sweetness, with nutty and cocoa flavors, excellent taste.

Representative Countries/Origins: Brazil, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi

To briefly explain what Bourbon coffee is. Bourbon coffee was initially cultivated on Réunion Island, which was also called Bourbon Island before 1789. Bourbon is a sub-variety that mutated from Typica, belonging to the same ancient coffee varieties as Typica. Bourbon family green beans are relatively round and small. Currently, well-known Bourbon varieties include Red Bourbon and Yellow Bourbon. Bourbon coffee has many more rich varieties, such as Caturra, Pacas, and Pointed Bourbon.

Knowledge Extension

"Acidity" is similar to astringency, similar to red wine, with the saying that "sweetness is easy, good acidity is rare." However, as the coffee temperature decreases, the "acidity" will correspondingly increase.

In Brief

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