Banko Taratu - 74110 74112 [washed] filter roast

Delicious, flavours of old-fashioned lemonade & blackberry with a floral lavender aroma.
Roasted 28 APR 2025

About the farmer(s)

Banko Taratu 74110, 74112 [Washed] — Ethiopia

This coffee was processed at the Banko Taratu Washing Station, in the town of the same name.The coffee is grown in the surrounding area by around 500 small-holder farmers in rich, fertile soils at very high altitudes. Coffee trees are planted amongst the family's food crops.

During harvest, cherries are selectively hand-picked before being delivered to the washing station. There they are sorted for over or under-ripe cherries, de-pulped, wet fermented for 12-48 hours, washed, soaked then placed on raised beds to dry.

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  • region Gedeo Zone
  • farm/farmer Small-holder
  • altitude 1950-2300
  • crop 2024
  • cultivar 74110, 74112
  • process Washed

74110 and 74112 are selections of Ethiopian landrace coffee cultivars, developed in the 70's at the Jimma Agricultural Research Center [JARC] for resistance to the coffee berry disease. The prefix '74' indicates that the selection and cataloguing occurred in 1974.