Ethiopia Idido Women Farmers

Highlights

“Idido sits high in the Gedeo Zone, in the stretch of Yirgacheffe that people name-drop when they want you to know they take Ethiopian coffee seriously. This lot comes from women smallholders working plots that rarely reach a full hectare, intercropped with false banana for shade and soil, farmed by hand with very little chemical help. The cherries dry whole on raised beds for eight to twenty-five days, turned and hand-sorted throughout. At 1,850-2,090 metres the cherry ripens slowly and the sugars have time to build. It cupped at 87+, a score Yirgacheffe does not hand out casually.”