Ethiopia Natural Yirgacheffe WORKA Chechele G1

strawberry - peach - honey

roasted light-to-medium

Size: 12oz / 340g

OUR TAKE

We reserved this coffee because the flavor profile of strawberry and peach personifies our hometown perfectly. Fort Mill is home to the South Carolina Strawberry Festival since 2009 and our community store since 1980 is named no other than "The Peach Stand". We're aiming to achieve a blend to offer this profile year-round, but when we saw one coffee having all this we couldn't resist.

This Ethiopian coffee is made using what’s known as natural processing, by which the coffee fruit is dried beneath the sun before the seeds are extracted. This process lets the fruit and the nutrients from the skin and sugars concentrate into the seed. The result is a coffee with fruity flavors of berries and stone fruit which ultimately give way to a stunning floral honey. 

DETAILS

Country: Ethiopia
Region: Yirgacheffe
Farm: WORKA Cooperative
Elevation: 1850 MASL
Variety: Ethiopian Heirloom
Process: Natural

STORY

The Worka Cooperative was established in 2005 and currently has approximately 305 members. In 2005, the cooperative joined the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU), an umbrella organization established 2002 to support a sustainable coffee supply from cooperatives in the Gedeo ethnic region of Ethiopia. There are twenty-six other cooperatives affiliated with the YCFCU totaling more than 45,000 members.