Notes of Blackberry, Pomegranate, Baking Spice, Chocolate
Grower: Dumerso Cooperative
Altitude: 1,750 – 2,300 meters
Variety: Indigenous landraces and regional heirloom cultivars
Soil: Volcanic loam
Region: Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
Process: Full natural
Harvest: October – December
Certification: Fair Trade (FT FLO/USA) | Organic
This coffee is sourced from family owned farms organized around the Dumerso Cooperative located within the coffee region of Yirgacheffe in the Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia. The Dumerso Cooperative currently has 246 members. In 2002, the cooperative joined the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU), an umbrella organization established in 2002 to support a sustainable coffee supply from cooperatives in the Gedeo ethnic region of Ethiopia. There are twenty-six other cooperatives affiliated with the YCFCU totaling more than 45,000 members.
