Telila - Ethiopia

Telila is a washing station located in southwestern Ethiopia that is owned and operated by Mike Mamo - a super cool dude who also exports the coffee through his company Addis Exporters. That's some vertical integration right there! Telila separates all of their lots by kebele or municipality - a practice unique to this washing station. This particular lot comes from Kecho Anderacha and is made up primarily of JARC 74112 - a coffee varietal developed in the 70s by the Jimma Agricultural Research Center to resist the dreaded coffee berry disease (CBD) - a fungal infection that affects coffee production worldwide to this day. So pumped to have Telila back on the menu. This year's harvest is full of stone fruit, citrus and even some pleasing cocoa notes. Outta sight.