A sweet and fruity new natural Ethiopia! Introducing our Ayla Bombe Ethiopia Natural. This coffee boasts all the things we love about a well done natural process Ethiopia (a sparkling acidity and intense fruit notes, not to mention a lovely velvety body) but it also delivers some unexpected aroma and flavor notes to make it a truly unique and intriguing cup. We tasted passion fruit, lavender, green apple, bergamot, and lime along with a super sweet and pleasant kick of maple. We highly recommend this coffee for lovers of Ethiopia natural process coffees who are looking for a little twist on the expected flavor profile.
About Ayla Washing Station. The Ayla Washing Station serves around 375 smallerholder farmers in the village of Bombe near the Bombe Mountain in Sidama. Ayla is one of 26 washing stations owned and managed by Testi Coffee. While Testi Coffee’s first focus is to produce exemplary coffee, they are also community focused. Testi Project Direct is a community development initiative they created to focus on assisting farmers and improve their quality of life. They provide financial support to farmers for upgrades, composting, picking, as well as contribute to social projects such as area schools and water projects. In addition, they pay premiums to improve the quality of living of each member farmer. They built a primary school in Denbi Uddo, Guji in 2014 and they provide annual school supplies for all the students each year. Farmers contributing to Ayla own an average of 2.5 hectares and typically grow other crops along side their coffee. Intercropping like this is beneficial to the coffee (creating higher quality lots) and to the environment (shade grown coffee and crop diversity is better for the birds while creating natural pest deterrent and weed control to prevent need for herbicides and pesticides.) Coffee here is grown in traditional Ethiopian fashion which is to use zero inputs such as herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals. Ripe coffee cherries are delivered to the Testi Ayla Washing Station where they are processed.
Unparalleled quality, a human story, and sustainability – that’s our coffee philosophy.
