Ethiopia Shoondhisa

Whole bean coffee

We roast to order on Mondays and Wednesdays and ship the same day. Orders will be included in a roast if they’re received by 4pm Eastern Time the day before.

Origin: Ethiopia

Region: Guji

Locality: Shakiso

Producer: Ture Waji of Sookoo Coffee

Dry Station: Dambi Uddo

Altitude: 2173 meters

Process: Natural sundried

Varieties: Gibirinna 74110, Serto 74112

Tasting notes: Purple grape, strawberry, lemon

Ethiopia Shoondhisa is a natural dry processed coffee produced by our partners Sookoo Coffee in Shakiso, Guji zone. It used to be that out of all the coffees we buy from Ethiopia each year we would only buy one natural and it was always from them. It also used to be that Sookoo, helmed by Ethiopian coffee veteran Ture Waji, only produced coffee with a natural sun-dried fermentation process. Things have changed a little bit in the last two years, as we have started to buy some natural coffees from other producers in Ethiopia, and Sookoo has branched out into washed and honey processing at their new wet mill. Still, the fact remains that Shoondhisa is still one of the absolute cleanest natural coffees that we taste from anywhere, year after year.

Ripe cherry is grown and picked by smallholding farmers in the Shoondhisa woreda (village) under native shade canopy, and delivered to the Dambi Uddo dry processing station. After the delivery is sorted and weighed, the farmer is paid above market price and the cherry is brought immediately to raised beds to dry in the sun. These coffees are seriously some of the cleanest naturals we've ever tasted, which we attribute to excellent picking and sorting by the growers, followed by extremely diligent and slow drying in perfect conditions at the hands of Ture and his team at Sookoo.

With this year's harvest of Shoondhisa we taste purple grape, strawberry, and lemon.

Transparency

This is our sixth year buying from Ture Waji of Sookoo Coffee through our importer Osito Coffee. We wrote a forward contract in February 2024 to buy 5 60kg bags for $5.50/lb FOT, on a day when the Coffee Commodity price was $1.91/lb. We cupped this offer at origin in January 2024 and scored it 87 points.

Photo credit: Osito Coffee