Cupping notes: Raspberry jam, plum, tropical, spice. Clean and complex, juicy acidity.
Sidamo’s natural process gives it a juicy, berry-forward profile. Think raspberries and a hint of tropical sweetness round off with a little spice heat - this Sidamo is like summer in a mug. The aroma is bursting with fruit, the body is rich and velvety, and there’s a sweetness that lingers
The Sidamo region is one of Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands, and this lot is a textbook example of why. Grown at high altitude and dried in the shade on raised beds, the beans develop layers of complexity — jammy fruit, plum and a spice undertone that ties it all together. Roasted at the higher end of medium, it sings in filter brews but has depth to shine in espresso / aeropress and percolator too.
Shantawene has won 7th place (from more than 1,400 entries) in the 2020 Cup of Excellence in Ethiopia! In 2006, brothers Asefa and Mulugeta Dukamo founded Daye Bensa, a coffee grower and exporter in Ethiopia. Daye Bensa exports coffee from its farm, in the Shantawene Village, as well as from “out-growers” (or smallholders) in three villages: Shantawene, Karamo and Bombe. Ethiopia Shantawene is named after the village where the majority of the people who work on the farm, many of them women, are from.
