About
Coffee Expression The innovative processing leads to a wild expression, with softened violet florals, and notes of rich and ripe tropical fruits in the cup.
Producer Produced by Gesha Village in the Bench Maji zone of Ethiopia.
100g (3.53oz) - Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso
Brewing Advice
Water is one of the most critical components of an excellent coffee experience. We recommend using mineral water of a soft Total Dissolved Solids count, ideally below 150 ppm.
Rested coffee During the resting process, harsh and astringent flavors, which can even be perceived as a ‘roast’ character, soften out, allowing a clearer and brighter expression of the coffee’s character to shine.
We recommend resting our coffees for at least 10 days after the roast date, and we often find excellent results, especially for particularly dense coffees, beyond 6 weeks.
Brewing Our straightforward approach to coffee carries over into brewing. We recommend our roasted coffee for all brew methods, regardless of whether it is immersion, percolation or espresso. We believe that there is one correct way to roast a single coffee, roasting lightly, in such a way as to release its innate qualities and showcase its quality. Learn more about different brewing techniques and specific brew guides here.
Technical Data
Producer Gesha Village
Region Bench Maji
Altitude 2000 masl
Varietal Gesha 1931
Process Mossto Anaerobic
Harvest February 2024
Shipping & Delivery
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· Coffee is roasted to order
Gesha Village
Gesha Village lies in the Bench Maji zone of South Western Ethiopia, not far from the border with South Sudan. This area, in the high altitude humid forests where the Great Rift Valley passes into South Sudan, is thought to be the birthplace of Arabica coffee, and is still home to great genetic diversity. Here at Gesha Village however, one varietal sits in the spotlight; Geisha.
Adam Overton and Rachel Samuel first travelled to Ethiopia in 2007 to make a documentary about its unique method of coffee production, and fell in love with the country. They decided during that short trip that they would eventually move to the country to start producing coffee themselves. They found a 471 hectare plot of land in Bench Maji, further west than we normally find specialty coffee in Ethiopia, in a remote area of untouched high altitude forest. The wild forest remained as coffee was planted, maintaining as much as possible of the biodiversity so crucial to the Ethiopian mode of production, while also providing ample shade for the fragile Geisha trees.
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This isn’t just any Geisha however. Gesha Village is located only around 20 km from the Gori Gesha forest, where the hallowed varietal of the same name was first isolated by British researchers in 1931. When preparing Gesha Village, the team behind the project trekked into the forest and gathered seeds from the wild coffee trees growing there, selecting those that genetically resembled the original 1931 expedition Geisha.
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Oma
This lot of Gesha 1931 was grown on the Oma plot of Gesha Village, reaching up to 2040 masl and producing some of the most aromatic coffees on the farm. This excellent raw material is elevated ever further by an innovative process that Gesha Village have dubbed ‘Mossto Anaerobic’.
This method involves the juice of the coffee fruit, adding extra sugar to the fermentation to create a wild expression, while maintaining the clean and floral characteristics of the varietal. To accomplish this process, coffee is de-pulped, but as much of the sticky mucilage layer as possible is left on the seeds. The coffee is then taken to plastic tanks, where it is sealed without oxygen, along with fresh juice from crushed coffee cherries at a ratio of 1 litre of juice to 8 kg of pulped coffee. This juice is also known as mossto, hence the name of the process.
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The fermentation is rather long, at 80 hours, with the tanks turned often to distribute the juice and coffee and make sure of an even fermentation. The coffee is then dried as a honey with mucilage still attached, using a similar method to many of Gesha Village’s coffees. The coffee is laid on African raised beds, initially in thin layers for the first three days, before moving to shade drying. This quick initial drying aims to minimise fermentation on the beds, before completing the process more gradually minimises damage to the coffee’s cell structure, which is vital to keeping it tasting fresher and brighter for longer.
We also purchased a natural lot from Gesha Village's Oma plot, with clear jasmine aromatics are followed by stone fruit in the cup, with a deep sugary sweetness tied up by a black tea finish. Read more below.
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This careful and innovative process leads to a rich expression, with softened violet florals, and notes of juicy and ripe tropical fruits in the cup.
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