• Green freda-coffee.live box of Gotiti washed Ethiopian coffee, with an Apricot & Jasmine label against a yellow background.
  • Workers hand sorting Ethiopian parchment coffee on a mesh drying bed.
  • Washed Ethiopian coffee drying in its parchment layer on a raised bed, with workers spreading the beans by hand.
  • Coffee plants growing beneath tall shade trees among dense green vegetation in Ethiopia.
  • Red coffee cherries collected in a tiled receiving hopper before processing, with wooded hills behind.
  • Three workers hand sorting parchment coffee on raised drying beds, with a woven basket in the foreground.
  • Rows of raised beds covered with parchment coffee, with workers tending the beans beside a wooded hillside in Ethiopia.
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GOTITI - Ethiopia

GOTITI - Ethiopia

Juicy and Well Balanced

Roast - Light

Great For - V60, Orea Z1, Filter

It’s lovely to have Gotiti back with a new crop! I’ve been brewing it at home on the xBloom, and it’s got so much of what I love about washed Ethiopian coffee: a clean cup, bright, complex flavours and that lovely floral jasmine note. A real pleasure to have back in the line-up.

£17.90 GBP
£17.90 GBP
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Info

Producer: G1 GOTITI

Origin: Ethiopia

Process: Washed

Altitude: 2000 - 2100

Varietal: 74110,74112

Tasting Notes: Peach and Apricot

SCA Score: 87.25

Story

Gotiti is back, and this time it’s the new crop! If you tried the Gotiti I roasted earlier in the year, this is a new harvest from the same coffee-growing community in Ethiopia.

This washed Ethiopian coffee comes from Eva Gotiti washing station in Gotiti, Gedeb, within the Gedeo Zone of southern Ethiopia. Established in 2022 on a two-hectare site, the station processes cherries from 868 farmers growing coffee in small gardens nearby. The varieties grown include 7454, 74110, 7440 and 74112.

For me, those details are an important part of the story. Behind a lot like this are hundreds of individual growers, with the washing station bringing their work together through careful processing and keeping track of each lot.

Once delivered, the cherries are cleaned to remove leaves, stones and other debris, then washed and pulped to separate the fruit from the beans. The beans are fermented in water tanks under controlled temperatures to break down the remaining sticky fruit layer, known as mucilage, before being washed again.

The coffee then spends around 10–14 days drying on raised beds, still protected by its parchment layer. It’s turned regularly throughout the day and covered during the midday heat and overnight to help manage drying. Once dry, the parchment coffee rests in storage for around 20 days before onward shipping. Lots are kept separate for cupping and assessment, with records maintained from farm through to export.

The station also works to reduce water use and separates coffee pulp from wastewater. Alongside its six permanent staff and six seasonal workers, it provides temporary work for 244 people during the season.

Its support for the surrounding farming community includes distributing coffee seedlings, offering financial assistance to disadvantaged farmers and paying premiums linked to coffee deliveries. Plans for the station’s future include expanding the site, developing an underground water source and adding drying equipment and solar tunnels.

I’m pleased to have Gotiti back in the Freda line-up, and I’m looking forward to sharing this new harvest with you.

Transparency

Importer: Falcon Speciality Coffee

Purchase Price: $6.85/lb

Price Vs Fairtrade Minimum: +280.45%

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