PRODUCER: Community Smallholders
REGION: Segera, Sidamo, Ethiopia
VARIETAL: Ethiopian landraces
PROCESS: Washed
TASTE: Red Grape, Honeysuckle, Raspberry Jam

Ethiopia’s Sidamo region is one of the best-known coffee-growing areas in the world. Like the rest of Ethiopia, it’s divided into several woredas (districts) and kebeles (communities) with washing stations throughout—each offering unique terroir. Bensa lies within a valley in a very mountainous area of ​​Sidamo with kebeles throughout. Segera producers’ main income source is coffee, which they grow on very small farms. The people of Segera belong to the Sidamo culture and speak various dialects of the Sidamo language. They maintain ancient traditions, like their round housing structures which are identical to those used in this area 10,000 years ago. Segera producers have retained many of the original indigenous coffee varieties, which bring the heat with small beans and intense, diverse flavor.