Ethiopia Guji Hambela Dabaye
Delicious and delicate light roasted, juicy sweetness, tart acidity, and fragrant aromatics. Notes of white honey, nectarine, apricot, and a passion fruit floral note permeates the aroma. City to City+.
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Full Cupping Notes
Delicious and delicate, this wet-processed lot from Hambela Dabaye packs impressive sweetness, and fragrant aromatic notes. The dry grounds smelled of natural dark sugars with accents of molasses and honey, stone fruit, and black tea. A more intense aromatic profile emerges from the wetted grounds, and running my spoon through the coffee crust released a potent mix of raw sugars, honey, crystalized ginger, mango, and peach tea. In the cup, City roasts produce a potent aroma propped up by juicy sweetness, and a fragrant white honey note in the finish. As the coffee cools down some, I pick up on more of the fruited flavors like nectarine, apricot, and peach, along with a passion fruit flavor that permeates the aroma with a tropical floral aspect. The acidic impression has aspects of tart fruit that are well integrated into the fruited sweetness. Much of the coffee character can be described as light and delicate, and you should give it a light treatment in the roaster too. Pulling 1 minute and 30 seconds after the start of 1st Crack is not too soon! The coffee coloring might look slightly mottled and uneven, but it's where we've found some of liveliest pour over brews.
- Process Method Wet Process (Washed)
- Cultivar Heirloom Types
- Farm Gate Yes
Hambela Dabaye is from longtime Guji coffee farmer and mill manager, Kedir Hassan. He is the older brother to Esmael Hassan, who you may remember as the producer of another Guji coffee we've also carried, Kayon Mountain. "Dabaye" is the name of the kebele where this Hambela station is located (a town, more or less). We were lucky enough to be hosted at this station on our December 2018 visit, camping out in a pair of military tents replete with cots, overlooking the couple hundred drying tables below us. Kedir is an incredibly proficient and capable engineer as well as coffee farmer, and built the entire Hambela station in one season. You wouldn't know this, as it's visually apparent everything was built with high processing standards, and with efficiency in mind. Of course he did not complete Hambela on his own, and thanks to his long standing connection with the the people in this area, he had much needed community support. Hambela sits at 1816 meters above sea level, and coffee is grown as high as 2100 meters. They mostly buy coffee from farmers in the surrounding kebeles of Buliye, Wamena, Borticha, Dari Rogicha and Dabaye, of course. The mill is also certified organic, though we did not buy this lot with a certificate.
| Region | Dame Dabaye, Hambela Wamena, Guji |
|---|---|
| Processing | Wet Process (Washed) |
| Drying Method | Raised Bed Sun-Dried |
| Arrival date | July 2025 Arrival |
| Lot size | 60 |
| Bag size | 60 KG |
| Packaging | GrainPro Liner |
| Farm Gate | Yes |
| Cultivar Detail | Heirloom Cultivars |
| Grade | Grade 1 |
| Appearance | .2 d/300gr, 14-16 Screen |
| Roast Recommendations | City to City+ |
| Type | Farm Gate |
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