Duromina is one of the defining washing stations in Agaro, a coffee-growing area in Western Ethiopia known for washed coffees that arrive early and become even more expressive months after arrival.
This lot comes from the surrounding Qadamessa community, where hundreds of smallholder farmers grow coffee on tiny plots, some less than a single acre. Coffee is the main source of income here, but rarely the only crop. Maize and enset grow nearby, while steady rainfall and high elevation help the cherries develop slowly.
During harvest, ripe cherries are brought to Duromina, where the coffee is mechanically depulped, soaked overnight in fiberglass tanks, then dried on raised beds for nearly a week, turned often to keep the drying even.
That precision gives the coffee its shape: tea-like, floral, and sweet without much weight. It has the clarity people love in washed Ethiopian coffees, but the volume is lower, the details finer.
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