Yega Sheffield Banchi Maggie Village Manor introduction what is the flavor of the manor coffee in Yiqiu Village?

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In the ancient Ethiopian saying, yirga means "settle down", cheffe means "wetland", and Yirgacheffe means "let us settle down in this wetland".

Yega Xuefei is arguably one of the most famous producing areas in Ethiopia. It is located in a narrow area of Sidamo province with a height of about 2300 meters (equivalent to the height of Alishan in Taiwan). Because of its geographical environment close to mountains and lakes and coffee treatment, the coffee planted has a unique flavor, so it is independent from the Sidamo producing areas and has become one of the boutique coffee bean producing areas in Africa.

Coffee farmers harvest coffee cherries and send them to cooperative treatment stations for cleaning. The traditional Ethiopian water washing method ferments coffee beans that have been treated with skin and pulp for 72 hours, and then washes them again. The washed coffee beans are placed on a high shelf to dry, and the work will be inspected and turned constantly in the process, so as to maintain the quality.

Yiqiao Village Manor

The owner of Gesha Village is Adam Overton, an out-and-out American who was not a coffee shop owner but a documentary filmmaker.

His wife, Rachel Samuel, is Ethiopian and a photographer. The two were commissioned to shoot a documentary about coffee in Ethiopia in 2007, and their dream of building their own estate sprouted as they became more and more in touch with Ethiopian land and people.

In 2009, they met Willem Boot.

Who is he? Willem Boot, a Dutchman who runs a coffee shop in his family, emigrated to the United States and worked for Porbat, a bean baking company. In 2004, he served as a judge of BOP, and it was the first time that the Geisha variety appeared on the field. After taking a sip, he felt amazing and delicious. So in 2006, he bought La Mula, then an obscure small estate, and planted 6000 Geisha plants.

In the 2014 BOP competition, Donkey Manor took part in the competition for the first time, winning the championship and 11th place in the tanning group. Other famous manors, such as Feicui, Kotowa, Elida and so on, were defeated by this eight-year-old manor.

What Willem Boot hopes to do most is to go back to Ethiopia and find the land where Geisha was born.

Yes, Geisha is also found in Ethiopia, the source of coffee.

In 1931, the coffee variety Geisha was found in a forest called Geisha Mountain in Ethiopia.

Later, Don Pachi brought it back to Costa Rica for planting and transferred it to other estates.

At the beginning, the yield was very low, but the ability to resist mold was very strong and the trees were very high, so it was planted on the edge of many manors as a windbreak.

Until 2004, the Emerald Manor made her independent, put her on the field and became famous in the first World War.

After meeting Willem Boot, the Adam couple deepened their idea of building a Geisha estate in Ethiopia.

So they flew to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. At first they hoped to build the manor relatively close to the capital.

But given the microclimate, soil and other natural environment they observed in Panama, they ended up in the Benzimaji region (Bench-Maji), southwest of Ethiopia, near South Sudan. There are many places in that area called Geisha Village, and it is also the area where the original Geisha is most likely to be found.

So they decided to set up their manor here and call it "Gesha Village Coffee Estate".

In 2011, Willem Boot came to the groundbreaking ceremony of the manor and served as a consultant to the manor.

Miraculously, not far from the manor, a primeval forest, known locally as Gori Geisha, discovered a native species of coffee that is very similar to La Mula manor.

The whole forest is filled with the aroma of coffee flowers. They deeply believe that this is the place where Geisha was found, and this variety is the original species. Later breed identification also confirmed this idea.

So the estate grows two types of Geisha, one of which is Gori Geisha in the forest, and the other is the 1931 species of Geisha that were first discovered.

This year, Gesha Village also made an independent bid. Lot 86 scored a high score of 87.45 on the cup test, while the first place was Geisha 1931 washing lot 80.

Flavor: grinded into delicate aromas of orange blossom, blueberry, bergamot, peach, jasmine and grapefruit. The entrance is orange blossom, blueberry, with jasmine aroma, peach, bergamot, typical geisha flavor, meticulous and elegant.

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