Gara Agena
Rose and jasmine florals with nectarine and lychee
Origin: Bura, Sidama, Ethiopia
Variety: JARC 74110, 74158
Process: natural
Producer: Faysel A Yonis
Relationship length: since 2023
We strive to dispatch all orders within one working day of your purchase. (Please note, Western Australia shipments may take longer than usual to arrive, as Australia Post is currently experiencing delays due to weather.)
Standard post is FREE for orders over $60 (or $7.95 for orders under $60) Australia-wide.
Express Post is $9.95 Australia-wide.
In addition we offer free Click and Collect from our Weston St Roastery in Brunswick East, Monday - Friday between 8am till 3pm. Orders are usually ready within 24 hours.
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This spectacular coffee won 2nd place in the 2024 Taste of Harvest, an annual competition to seek out the most exquisite coffees in Africa. It only takes one sip to understand why the international panel of judges ranked it so highly – in the cup, this coffee is intensely sweet, vibrant, lively and complex.
Gara Agena is a washing station owned by our Ethiopian supply partners, Testi Coffee. By establishing washing stations in areas with favourable growing conditions and paying premiums for well-harvested cherries, Testi ensures that they receive extremely high quality fruit, resulting in coffees with outstanding sweetness, complexity and distinction.
“The washing station is located on a meander of the Geta River, so the drying beds are almost completely encircled by the river,” says Market Lane co-founder, Jason, who visited Gara Agena earlier this year. “This creates a cool microclimate, which slows down the drying process. The place feels like a bit of a sanctuary; it’s sheltered from the wind and the hill faces the afternoon sun. It’s quiet except for the river.”
At harvest time, around 450 farmers deliver their coffee cherries to the washing station to be processed. For this lot, the coffee was painstakingly hand-sorted and graded, and the healthiest, ripest cherries were dried in the fruit on raised beds.
