[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.66″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” sticky=”off” align=”center” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Ethiopia_Origin_Report_2018_blog-1.jpg” animation=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_color=”#686868″ border_style=”solid” max_width=”1000px” text_font_size=”16″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ header_font=”Raleway|on|||” custom_margin=”||5px|” custom_padding=”||5px|” disabled=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|on” module_alignment=”left”]<\/p>\n
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When we think of Ethiopia, we are often drawn to its past, especially when it comes to coffee: As the birthplace of Coffea arabica<\/em> and one of the first places to fully embrace coffee drinking as a ritual with social and cultural significance, Ethiopia can truly boast the world\u2019s oldest and longest history with this magical plant and beverage.<\/strong> To simply look at Ethiopia as a relic of the coffee-producing world, or to assume that it is entirely wrapped up in tradition would be a mistake, however, and perhaps more so this year than ever when we think of Ethiopia at Cafe Imports, the phrase \u201cback to the future\u201d comes immediately to mind, in more ways than one\u2014even beyond the coffee.<\/p>\n From the landscape itself, to the changes the country\u2019s coffee industry is making to its engagement on the world market, to the innovations and adaptations that are happening at the farm and mill level, even to our own personal involvement there as green-coffee buyers\u2014forward progress is being made here in leaps and bounds, but with one eye always to what came before, even if simply to nod at the heritage and ancient influence that still guides us to this day.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.86″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Ethiopia_Origin_Report_2018-11.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” animation=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro” background_layout=”light” border_color=”#686868″ max_width=”1000px” text_font_size=”16″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ saved_tabs=”all”]<\/p>\n Photos by Claudia Bellinozi, Cafe Imports green-coffee buyer, December 2017<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Passing the Baton” background_layout=”light” border_color=”#686868″ max_width=”1000px” text_font_size=”16″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ saved_tabs=”all” header_font=”Raleway||||||||”]<\/p>\n Cafe Imports\u2019 most recent sourcing trip to Ethiopia is actually something of a perfect metaphor for the transitions happening this year, as it also marked the beginning of a \u201cchanging of the guard\u201d among our green-coffee buyers: In late November\/early December, as the harvest was getting up to full speed, Cafe Imports\u2019 head of sourcing Jason Long<\/a> embarked on his 14th trip to the country as a buyer, bringing brand-new green-coffee team member Claudia Bellinzoni<\/a> along for her first visit there.<\/strong><\/p>\n Claudia joined the Cafe Imports family this year and will be focusing her efforts in Africa, allowing Jason more time and energy to explore new sourcing opportunities and develop new relationships in regions where we haven\u2019t yet set our sights (or our cupping spoons). The trip was an introduction between Claudia and several of our exporting partners in Yirgacheffe, Guji, and Shakiso, and they all took to each other right away. \u201cIt was ten days that were very hectic, very intense, and incredibly great,\u201d Claudia said over Skype just a few days after returning to her home office of Berlin. \u201cI learned a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Though Claudia is an experienced buyer and coffee professional, and has lived in Tanzania, among other places\u2014her passport is very well-stamped\u2014she was impressed by how culturally distinct Ethiopia is. \u201cIt\u2019s very different, from a cultural point of view,\u201d she said. \u201cI found it economically more dynamic than some of the other countries I know, and it\u2019s growing economically, with coffee of course being a priority.\u201d She was also moved by the personal relationship that producers have with coffee themselves, something else that is quite different from other growing regions. \u201cIt\u2019s a tradition for them, a part of their daily routine, and really part of their culture,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re not just growing it for export, they really love coffee, they are really interested in it, and they have a spiritual and religious background that is very, very deep with coffee.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As for Jason, he found that traveling with Claudia in a country he knows so well was a re-invigorating experience after having made so many solo trips.<\/strong> \u201cIt was fun, and it made it more exciting,\u201d he said. He was also happy to have the time to get to know her more closely as a colleague, since we are often working rather remotely from one another as a small team working across a big planet. \u201cShe\u2019s really nice, really smart, very intellectual, very considerate, and ethical\u2014I think that\u2019s extremely important,\u201d Jason said. \u201cShe\u2019s also a good cupper,\u201d he says, which is obviously one of the highest compliments an experienced buyer like Jason can give to any fellow professional. Jason explained that he and Claudia cupped in the Addis Ababa office of one of our export partners, whose quality-control agent joined them in the tasting. Jason and Claudia were both pleased and somewhat relieved by how naturally the three of them were in tune with one another.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe was great, very good with the high-end flavor descriptors\u2014really describing the flavors well. All three of us were really looking at the same thing,\u201d Jason says, while also noting that even where preferences might vary, understanding of objective quality is key. \u201c[Claudia] liked the Naturals that are like really strawberry, and maybe a little too fruity for me\u2014but that\u2019s really just preference. We can determine things about what\u2019s best for the marketplace, and we were all describing the same sensations.\u201d<\/p>\n Claudia agrees with the calibration in the cupping lab. \u201cWe cupped together with this guy and we were really happy because he was completely in alignment with us with the scoring and the description of the cups.\u201d One of her favorites, she said, \u201cwas like strawberry juice\u2014like actually squeezing strawberries and drinking the juice.\u201d Both Claudia and Jason said the coffees were tasting a bit fresh yet on the table, and they did notice some concerns with the prep and sorting of the cherries at a few of the mills, but the conversations they had with various mill managers seemed fruitful (pardon the pun), and should result in lots that show much better, cleaner, and more attentive care when we start to receive the samples from origin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jason thinks that having Claudia along helped to add a new dimension to some of the sourcing plans for this season, and contributed a fresh perspective as well as some new collaborations. \u201cI think they liked some of the ideas we had,\u201d he said. \u201cA younger buyer\u2019s not going to have the same experience in a lot of ways, but she has an enthusiasm and a sense of wonder,\u201d which he said probably contributes to the willingness a partner of long-standing might have to look at a problem or an approach in a new way. (More on this later, too.)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.86″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Ethiopia_Origin_Report_2018-10.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” animation=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Back to the Land” background_layout=”light” border_color=”#686868″ max_width=”1000px” text_font_size=”16″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ saved_tabs=”all” header_font=”Raleway||||||||”]<\/p>\n One of the other most noticeable things Jason and Claudia reported from their trip, and which has also been making headlines in eco-news lately, is the increased attention that the Ethiopian government and various other organizations are putting on stopping or at least slowing the rampant deforestation that the country has experienced, especially in the past few decades. In the 16th century, Ethiopia was more than 40 percent forest cover, where today only about 4.4 percent of the country has old-growth or wild forest remaining. Competition for land use is partially to blame: Urbanization and new industrial facilities, as well as pasture land for the nation\u2019s 70 million livestock cattle inspire the widespread razing of trees and other heirloom vegetation. Simultaneously, the reliance on timber as a fuel source in rural areas threatens natural old-growth tree forests, and wild coffee has been vanishing at a startling rate thanks in part to climate change.<\/p>\n In short, the Ethiopia of today when seen from above looks almost nothing like the Ethiopia of the earliest days of Coffea arabica<\/em>\u2019s lore and legacy, but that \u201cback to the future\u201d mentality has raised hope that the greenery can be replaced and a more sustainable solution to the land management will make things greener from border to border.<\/p>\n Extra efforts to protect the woodlands without displacing the people who live in and rely on them is both time-sensitive and sociologically sensitive, and Jason noticed the difference when he and Claudia were in Guji. \u201cThere are a lot of old-growth trees in the area,\u201d he said, \u201cand the government is trying to save some of them, and to prevent people who live there from cutting them down for the charcoal trade.\u201d The government is encouraging farmers to plant coffee around the existing plants, to provide shade and to keep the ecosystem intact.<\/p>\n While deforestation, urbanization, and an increase in the removal of coffee to make room for qat plants are all certainly real concerns for the future of the coffee production and history, the landscape of Ethiopia still retains much of the breathtaking beauty and lush fertility that spawned it in the first place. \u201cThe soil, it\u2019s so red,\u201d Claudia said wistfully. \u201cThe land is so diverse and beautiful. Not just the landscape, but the vegetation, the plants\u2014the soil itself seems to be so rich. I think the coffee can only be good with a land like this, so many natural resources and soil that looks<\/em> full of minerals. We saw a green that Jason and myself were both like, wow, this color really exists?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Though that color does, in fact, exist in nature, unfortunately there were other instances of green that were somewhat surprising and perhaps a little troubling as well\u2014with regards to coffee, anyway: \u201cFor the first time, I saw more red and green cherries on the same branches on the same trees,\u201d Jason said, and Claudia echoed him: \u201cWe noticed that on the plants we saw many cherries on the same tree that were completely red and beautiful and others that were very green, which is strange for the cherry development to be in such a range, it was very mixed up.\u201d While there are coffee-growing regions throughout the world where blossoms, green cherries, and red cherries can be found on the same branch, this is not as common in Ethiopia, and both buyers wondered what exactly was the root cause. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get a straight answer,\u201d Jason said, \u201cbut I think it\u2019s inconsistent rain.\u201d Claudia said she thought that with correct and attentive hand-picking, as well as very selective sorting during processing and drying, we should still expect good quality cups this year. We simply hope this isn\u2019t the new normal.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.86″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Ethiopia_Origin_Report_2018-7.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” animation=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Partners, Process, Progress” background_layout=”light” border_color=”#686868″ max_width=”1000px” text_font_size=”16″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ saved_tabs=”all” header_font=”Raleway||||||||”]<\/p>\n Perhaps the single most significant \u201cback to the future\u201d development in Ethiopia this year has to do with the market itself, which has been cracked open thanks to sweeping policy changes by the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), the national body that has overseen and regulated the sale and marketing of Ethiopian coffee since it was established in 2008. The nature of the Exchange made it so farmers were guaranteed an ostensibly more stable price for their output, but by the nature of the institution it also erased much of the possibility not only for coffee traceability (by escaping all but general regional and processing identifiers as well as grade) but also the potential for specialty products, such as could formerly be requested of a single producer or a single mill. Coffee flowing through the ECX did offer some stability but many advocates for specialty and relationship lots were frustrated by what it curtailed from the development side.<\/p>\n This year, however, the ECX rules have changed, and a recent decision from leadership there has made it possible for washing stations and mills to sell coffee directly to buyers, rather than going through the Exchange first.<\/strong> Whether this will be ultimately good or bad for everyone involved\u2014whether coffee farmers will see higher prices, and whether coffee lovers will taste better quality\u2014is yet to be seen, but the possibility of making more direct and transparent connections with producers and mills is exciting, nonetheless. \u201cThe partnerships have a good potential,\u201d Claudia said, noting that several of the folks whom she and Jason visited seemed interested and excited to work with Cafe Imports on special preparations or particular small lots of select coffees.<\/p>\n It might be a bit soon to blow the lid off what we\u2019re working on with growers and mills specifically in Ethiopia for this coming arrival season, but if you keep your eyes trained on our website and social media platforms, you may be among the first to know where we\u2019re headed in this land of past, present, and future.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.86″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Ethiopia_Origin_Report_2018-8.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” animation=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Outro Para” background_layout=”light” border_color=”#686868″ max_width=”1000px” text_font_size=”16″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.86″ saved_tabs=”all”]<\/p>\n For more information about coffee production in Ethiopia, visit our Ethiopia Origin Page<\/a>. For our current available offerings from the most recent harvest while we wait for the next crop to arrive in late spring, visit www.cafeimports.com\/offerings.php<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.66″ show_divider=”on” color=”#000000″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.66″ background_position_1=”top_left” background_repeat_1=”no-repeat” disabled=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.66″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid” text_font_size=”16″ module_alignment=”left”]<\/p>\n We\u2019ll see the following coffees from Papua New Guinea, Sulawesi, and Sumatra in the coming weeks, and we can\u2019t wait to bring you along on an exploration of the vibrant and dynamic cups they have to offer, direct to you from our producing partners 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the Baton<\/h1>\n
Back to the Land<\/h1>\n
Partners, Processes, and Progress<\/h1>\n
\n<\/strong>Sweet and clean with a smooth mouthfeel; caramel, chocolate, apple and lemon flavors with a savory tropical aftertaste.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Balanced, sweet and savory with tangy acidity and a heavy mouthfeel; sugar cane juice flavor with toffee, lime and some floral.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Syrupy sweet with tangy fruit acidity and a smooth mouthfeel; lots of caramel and baked apple with lime, melon and chamomile flavors.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sweet and juicy with fruit acidity and a heavy mouthfeel; sugar cane juice, floral, plum and ripe dark fruit flavors<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Rich dark chocolate and toffee with squash blossom, stone fruit and cooked carrot flavors; sweet with lemon acidity and a smooth mouthfeel.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sugary sweet and very tangy acidity with a creamy mouthfeel; lots of juicy fruit flavor with chocolate, floral, orange and tamarind.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sweet with tart and tangy citric acidity and a heavy mouthfeel; lots of roasted red pepper and grapefruit with chocolate and fresh clean earthy flavors.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sugary sweet with tart and tangy acidity and a creamy mouthfeel; lots of brown sugar and vanilla flavor with grapefruit, sage and lemon- lime.<\/em>
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