Tim Wendelboe - Tatmara - 250g

A clean and expressive coffee with floral, citrus and stone fruit flavours.

Tim's Notes:

In 2022 we held a fund raiser during our 15 year anniversary and collected money that we donated to Negussie in order to fund the construction of a new wet mill on his farm. The wet mill was completed in October 2023 and I was able to be there to oversee the first lot being processed at the new mill. It was very beneficial to be able to be there right at the start of the harvest. It meant that we could see the mill in use and uncover any risks and make a protocol on how we would like our coffees to be processed.

We asked Negussie to separate all daily pickings, to dry the coffees under shade nets and to store the coffees in air tight grain pro bags after drying, making sure every daily picking was properly marked.
We also agreed upon the processing protocol, ensuring good results by controlling fermentation and implementing soaking of the coffee after the mucilage was removed mechanically.
As soon as the coffees were dried, samples were sent to us in Oslo in order to be able to give feedback and evaluate the quality.
The harvest went really well much thanks to the help and follow up done by Fantanesh Keleme and the whole team at Belco in Ethiopia, who made sure Negussie was properly trained and followed the protocols for all the coffees he produced for us. In fact none of the washed coffees were rejected as all of them ended up tasting really good.

This year we were able to separate three of Negussie’s cultivars 74110, 74112 and 74140. They are all from seeds from the Jimma Agricultural research Center and are among the so called «new and improved» cultivars that now are commonly planted across Ethiopia. This particular lot is a blend of 7 daily pickings of the cultivar 74110. I personally have found this to be the best by a tiny margin among the three cultivars Negussie grows, but it might be a coincidence too that it has cupped slightly better than the other ones in the past two years. Despite having challeging weather conditions throughout the 2024/25 harvest , Negussie was still able to produce a small amount of clean and tasty coffees with maybe slight lower flavour intensity than what the 2023/24 season offered. I still find distinct peachy and floral falavours in this coffee.