Ethiopia Gure Dako

Gure Dako is a cooperative run processing site in Gera region of Western Ethiopia. They're not too far from Nano Challa, at the end of a long dirt road really. Beyond this dead end is nothing but forest. The list of coffees under the same coop management includes Genji Challa, Duromina, Geta Bore and others. Gure Dako sits at roughly 2150 meters above sea level, and is on the smaller side comparatively. During the harvest they process coffee on a water conserving Penagos 2500 demucilager, pulping the coffee into 3 cement tanks where is is fermented overnight to break down the sticky fruit mucilage. The coffee is then washed and graded in long cement channels filled with fresh, clean water, and then laid to dry on raised beds. When we visited a couple years back, they were working with 60 drying beds, which seemed to be ample space during the peak of the harvest. The cup has nice fruit flavors for washed coffee, with this distinct peach floral characteristic that is surprisingly common in coffees from this region.