Description:

Tasting hints: Jasmine, tea-note, black currant, floral

Guji Coffee and Farm info

Cupping Score: 84

Village: Benti Nenka District: Hambela Wamena Zone: Guji

Altitude of farm: 2163 m.a.s.l.

Varieties:  Native heirloom

About the farm

The washing station in Benti Neka receives coffee cherries from 700 smallholders that live, and farm, at altitudes ranging from 1650 – 2163 m.a.s.l. Their plots have an average of 120 coffee trees which are engulfed in an almost natural forest-like environment; often classified as semi-forest. Compost and deadfall are strategically spread throughout the small farms to stimulate a healthy eco-system. The entire family of the smallholder is involved in picking the ripe cherries. The family plans several sweeps through the terrain to make sure every cherry they pick is mature. A tree might be visited several times before the harvest is over. Cherries are laid-out on the properties of smallholders, and they make sure that immature cherries are discarded from the batch before they deliver these to the Benti Nenka station.