Which kind of coffee is ranked by Essex? what is the difference between the red standard and the gold standard?

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Qianjie-Golden Standard and Red Standard Coffee knowledge sharing in Ruoxia Village

In 2007, documentary director Adam Overton and photographer wife Rachel Samuel came into contact with the Gera Coffee Forest in the Bench-Maji region of Ethiopia while filming a documentary about Ethiopian coffee for the Ethiopian government. In the process, they were not only reacquainted with the great land of Ethiopia, but also came up with the idea of setting up their own coffee estate and brand.

In 2009, they were lucky enough to meet the famous mule owner, BOP judge Willem Boot, and Willem Boot's idea provided an opportunity for the Overton couple to return to Ethiopia to find the birthplace of Rosa Xia.

Finally they came to Banchi Magi, an area in southwestern Ethiopia near South Sudan, where many places are known as the village of Gesha and where primitive roses are most likely to be found. Adam followed WillemBoot on an expedition in the forest around the manor, where he discovered a variety of wild tree species in a jungle magically surrounded by a dense forest.

Later they learned that this was the place where the rose species were first found in the Gori Gesha forest. So they collected seeds from native rose trees, screened them, and planted them in Rosa Village. They decided to build the estate here and name it Gesha Village Coffee Estate, a 475-hectare coffee farm about 12 miles from the Gori Gesha Forest.

The village of Gesha Village Coffee Estate is completely different from most Ethiopian farms in that it is not a small farm, but a large farm of 500ha, with its own washing plant and laboratory, located in the southwest near the border with Sudan, and the most special is that the whole farm only grows Rosa varieties, rather than Ethiopian native species that generally cannot be determined.

Rosa Village divides the farm into eight blocks, with three main Rosa varieties, whose seeds are collected from nearby forests, not from Panama.

There is a strict grading system in Guoxia Village, which is competitive bidding, gold bid, red bid, green bid and CHAKA batches.

[gold bid] the gold bid accounts for only 5% of the annual output of Ruoxia Village, which can almost be said to be of the same level as the bidding batch. Bakers with high requirements for quality will also purchase, with complete traceability, outstanding flavor and high complexity of each batch, which is the best grade of the manor second only to competitive bidding.

[red mark] is a single batch with high performance-to-price ratio because of its complete traceability and typical flavor of Rosa Village. Its flavor intensity and complexity are slightly weaker than those of gold standard batches.

Knowledge expansion: the varieties of Golden Standard and Red Standard are all Gorixia, while CHAKA is composed of Gorixia, Rosa 1931 and Illubabor.

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