‘An Unnameable Desire’ - Plini Collab

This coffee is a collaboration with our good friend Plini. A note for our regulars: this one sits closer to our Omni roast profile and is intentionally not as light as our usual offerings. If you know, you know.

This coffee was produced by Mr. Berhanu Kurse at his farm in Banko Gotiti, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. Berhanu lives in the village of Gotiti in the Gedeo district, farming 12 hectares of land, most of which is planted with coffee trees. His children, who own smaller neighbouring plots, help manage the farm. The land has been in the family for generations and coffee remains its primary source of income, covering everything from education to healthcare. This is a natural processed Heirloom Ethiopian variety grown at 2,200 to 2,300 MASL, sourced through Cafe Imports' Single Farmer Project via Cafe Imports Australia.

Cherries are delivered on the day of harvest, sorted for ripeness and quality, rinsed clean, and spread on raised drying beds. They are rotated constantly throughout drying, which takes anywhere from 8 to 25 days depending on conditions.

In the cup we find strawberry and hibiscus. Fresh and floral on the open with a sparkling acidity, settling into a warm caramel sweetness with a soft, rounded finish.

The Single Farmer Project was started by Cafe Imports back in 2012 to create a marketplace for fully farm-traceable Ethiopian lots at a time when traceability in Ethiopia was rare. It was one of the first programs to put an individual farmer's name on a contract and pay premiums directly to the producer. Berhanu is exactly the kind of farmer this project was built for, a smallholder doing everything right, whose coffee you would otherwise never see on this side of the world.