This week, we have 2x excellent Ethiopian coffees from Guji:

- Ethiopia Shoondhisa Natural, a clean as a whistle natty eth with some very dynamic fruit flavors and a white tea/orange zest backing
- Ethiopia Mulish Washed, a classic, yet elevated expression of what we love from a washed Ethiopian coffee, with notes of canned peaches and tons of white flowers like chamomile and vanilla.(this is a dupe from the sub!!)
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Ethiopia Shoondhisa Natural:
This lot comes from Sookoo Coffee, owned and operated by Ture Waji. Founded in 2018, Sookoo Coffee originally processed all its coffee at a drying station in Suke Quto, but has now grown to include 3 stations in total, adding on Sawana in Shakiso and Wessi station in the village of Tima. This naturally processed lot, titled "Shoondhisa" comes from 35 smallholder farmers surrounding Sookoo's drying station in Suke. On average, each farmer tends to roughly 300 coffee trees, dispersed throughout forested farm lands. All of this hardwork resulted in a beautifully clean, dynamic and interesting cup profile with a well structured candied peach and pineapple vibe while hot. As it cools, orange zest, subtle warming spices like clove or cardamom, and a lovely white tea body all coalesce into a quintessential "clean nat" flavor profile.
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Ethiopia Mulish Washed:
Located 40km from Shakiso in Sidamo, Ethiopia, sits Mulish washing station at 1800-1950masl. Founded in 2014 by Faysel Abdosh and the team at Testi Coffee when there were just a few farmers in the area, Mulish washing station has now grown to serve over 880 smallholder farmers. In the midst of this rapid growth, Testi Coffee opened its sister station, Bishan Dimo. We sourced this coffee through our importing partner, Trabocca, who have been working within Ethiopia since 2004, and are dedicated to maintaining stable and traceable year over year purchasing relationships within Ethiopia and beyond it. In the cup, we find huge candied peach notes with a crisp meyer lemon acidity. As it cools, an intricate array of white florals like vanilla and chamomile enter the picture, eventually settling into a marshmallow-esq sweetness.