Jasmine, Peach, and Chamomile
 
Roast Profile: Light
Process: Washed
Elevation: 1650 - 1800 MASL
Cultivar: Sima
Producer: Neel and KavitaVohora / Finagro Estate
 
Our Tanzania Gesha is an elegant take on a really high grade washed coffee from the Vohora family, and it will softly enter your hearts with its quiet strength, sweet tones and interesting florals. As it’s hot you get the sort of classic floral notes but once it cools, you’ll find how expressive it is with flavors like lilac, jasmine and honeysuckle.
 
Often consumers confuse loudness in a coffee with high quality. We think the reason is because when people are able to point out flavor notes easily they get really excited that their palate has “clicked” into place. However, it is important to understand the value and quality of coffee when it is also delicately floral, tea like, and not overpowering in many ways.
 
Farm Story:
Sibling duo Neel and Kavita Vohora, from the well-managed Edelweiss and Gaia estate farms that cover 1,000 acres across various ridges of the Ngorongoro caldera in northern Tanzania, have blossomed into an innovative and genre-defying coffee enterprise.
 
The Vohoras’ farms continue to innovate in processing methodology as well. Rather than resting on the laurels of tradition, nearly all of their coffee goes through a cherry maceration period prior to processing. For microlots like this Gesha, the timeframe for whole cherry “pre-fermentation” is determined specifically by cultivar.