Blind Assessment

Sweetly and gently tart. Lavender, brown sugar, lemon zest, honeydew melon, fresh pipe tobacco in aroma and cup. Delicately sweet-tart and juicy in structure; lightly syrupy in mouthfeel. Flavor consolidates but rings on in a resonant finish.

Notes

From the Deri Kochoha mill in the Hagere Maryame District, a little south of the famous Yirgacheffe region, where coffees largely from trees of varieties long grown in the region are subject to classically rigorous, traditional processing and drying procedures. This is a wet-processed or “washed” coffee, meaning the fruit skin and pulp were removed from the beans immediately after harvesting and before drying. Founded by roaster Keith Gehrke in 2015, States Coffee is a single-location community-focused coffee shop in downtown Martinez, California, featuring coffee roasted in-house and artisan-made goods. Visit www.statescoffee.com for more information.

Bottom Line

A good coffee choice for those who value softly stated brightness with delicate melony and floral aromatics.

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