FILTER | ETHIOPIA | DIMTU | APRICOT & PEACH (250g)

Origin:  Ethiopia

Region:  Oromia - Guji

Process : Washed 

Altitude : 2150m

Varieties:  JARC and Heirloom

Tasting notes:   Apricots, peaches, citrus, tea, jasmine

The Dimtu Wate station, located in the Hambela district of Guji (Ethiopia), receives coffee cherries from approximately 600 small producers spread across villages (kebeles) such as Buku Sayisa and Dimtu.

Among the stations in Gujoo, Wate is the highest in altitude and produces exclusively premium (G1) coffee. The harvest takes place from December to early February.

During the harvest season, 100 to 150 people from the region work as pickers. The coffee trees are relatively young, between ten and twenty years old, and the station was created in 2019 to address the decline in cup quality due to the aging of coffee trees in the surrounding areas.

The station is equipped with a Penagos eco-pulper, which reduces water consumption while effectively removing mucilage, thus enabling clean and homogeneous batches with minimal environmental impact.

The cherries brought by the farmers include local varieties such as Wolichu and Kudhume, as well as improved cultivars such as varieties 74112 and 74110.

Gujoo is also involved in social projects in the region, including the distribution of 1,000 reusable sanitary napkins to schoolgirls in collaboration with an American coffee roaster. The company also plans to install water pumps equipped with purification filters to sustainably improve the living conditions of the local community.

At the Dimtu station, the cherries are processed using a Penagos eco-pulper. This machine significantly reduces water consumption while efficiently removing mucilage, thus shortening fermentation times. It also automatically separates unripe beans, producing clean and homogeneous batches with minimal environmental impact.