Ethiopia Tabe Burka

$297.50

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This new Ethiopian offering hails from the Uraga wodera of Guji, Ethiopia. Coffees from Uraga have really caught our interest in recent years, tasting especially sweet, juicy and clean. This cup from the Tabe Burka washing station is filled with delicate notes of fresh peaches, hibiscus tea, strawberry and cantaloupe. A sweet, honeyed body and a layered complexity round things out. Clean, sweet and filled with stone-fruit, the Tabe Burka is a shining example of a Ethiopian coffee from the up-and-coming Uraga region.

The Tabe Burka washing station is located in the Uraga woreda, which is part of the Guji zone. Uraga is bordered by the Ode Shakiso woreda in the south-east and Gedeb woreda (Yirgacheffe) in the west. Mr. Tadesse Edema is the founder of Tabe Burka, and comes from coffee-oriented family of 29 brothers, all of whom work with coffee. His brothers, Girma and Dereje, have gained notoriety in the Guji zone because they produce such outstanding quality coffee in Uraga and Ambela.

Tadesse Edema collects his coffee from around 300 small-holder producers. Each farmer owns approximately 3 hectares of land, and typically cultivate other crops such as maize trees, false banana, and fruit trees along with their coffee crop. Tadesse pays the farmers groups in advance when harvest begins. This gives the smallholders enough incentive to harvest quality, and helps them with production costs. The water from the Burka river is used to wash the coffee from Tabe Burka site. Coffee is fermented for 24 – 36 hours.