Sourcing coffees in Ethiopia can often look very different when compared to other countries – say in Central America, where we would ordinarily purchase directly from the producers. In Ethiopia, coffee is largely grown in small home gardens, tended to by the family. From there, producers will sell their unprocessed coffee cherries to local washing stations.  

This lot is compiled of coffees from over 450 producers, who all delivered their coffee to Tracon’s Washing Station in Adado. 

There’s something special about the coffees from Adado – the lush, green, forest covered mountains, the small family coffee gardens littering the landscape, numbering in the thousands, the dense fog that settles in the valley for most of the day that has become synonymous with the region (and gives the regions its ‘Misty Mountain’ nickname). But it’s not simply the outstanding natural beauty that leads to coffees from Adado being so wonderful – it also takes a lot of skill and hard work. The team at Tracon’s Adado Washing Station have been mastering their craft for years – receiving only the ripest coffee cherries. This coffee was processed as a traditional natural and dried on raised beds.