Ethiopia Yirgacheffe G1 Washed ARICHA ADORSI

【產地】衣索比亞

【區域】Aricha kebele, Yirga Chefe woreda, Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations,Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia

【種植者/農場/處理廠】800 smallholder farmers organized around the Adorsi washing station

【海拔】 1900~2000m

【品種】 Kurume

【處理法】 水洗 and Dried on raised beds

【烘焙度】淺度烘焙 

【風味】葡萄柚、李子、紅茶、花香、焦糖、茶、花香、焦糖

BACKGROUND DETAILS

Adorsi is a private washing station located in the Yirgacheffe district, in the heart of southern Ethiopia’s

coveted Gedeo Zone. Gedeo is a narrow section of highland plateau dense with savvy farmers and

fiercely competitive processors, and has been known commercially as Yirgacheffe for many years after

the Yirgacheffe district itself, one of Ethiopia’s first areas to fully wash its coffee. As a coffee terroir,

Yirgacheffe has for decades been considered a benchmark for beauty and complexity in arabica coffee

—known for being beguilingly ornate and jasmine-like when fully washed, and seductively punchy and

sweet when sundried--and hardly requires an introduction.

Adorsi is a very young washing station,

having only been first established in 2018. Adorsi is owned and operated by Testi Trading PLC, the

same suppliers behind some of our top-scoring Sidama coffees we buy each year from Testi Ayla

washing station. Testi Trading has grown a lot in the past few years and are a big part of the growth of

independent processors and exporters in Ethiopia’s very competitive south doing the good, laborious

work of processing differentiation, traceability, and pushing quality boundaries.

Adorsi’s farmer

contributors are typical in size for the area, which is to say, tiny: half a hectare of coffee per farmer is

the average. Cherry is delivered to the washing station daily throughout the harvest months, where it is

depulped and fermented for 36-48 hours depending on the local climate. After fermentation is

complete the wet parchment is washed in long channels to scrub off residual mucilage and float off the

lowest density coffee. Drying occurs under parabolic shade netting for 5-7 days and rotated consistently

until reaching a final resting moisture content of 11-12 percent.

Private processors like Adorsi are

admirable businesses. It’s tough being a private processor in Gedeo, as the sheer density of

competition among washing stations tends to push cherry prices as high as double throughout a single

harvest, and privates often don’t have the backing of a larger union to secure financing, regulate cherry

prices, or bring export costs down with centralized milling and marketing. Successful private washing

stations like Adorsi, then, need to be not only standout quality processors to stay afloat; they must also

be excellent business developers with connections and community standing, in order to continue

winning the business of farmers and buyers alike, and stay afloat for the long term. Testi Trading

invests in local education among its communities, including in the Aricha kebele, where it has built 2

primary schools (and has already done similar work in Guji, West Arsi, and Shantawene, Sidama).