2024-12-01

November Mystery Coffee Reveal - Datura

Datura Mystery Coffee comes from the famous Gesha Village farm. Definitely the cleanest coffee of this MCL season.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia Gesha Village Surma 47

Variety: Geisha 1939
Farm: Surma
Region: Gesha
Processing: Classic Washed
Altitude: 1900 - 2000 masl
Tasting notes: jasmine, green tea, orange

About the coffee:

Gesha Village Estate is an exciting and inspiring project from Adam Overton and Rachel Samuel, realised with the help of many talented individuals.

The coffee farm is located near the Gori Gesha forest in far western Ethiopia, the place considered to be the origin of the Gesha lineage that has since traveled so far. Surma area is located in the southern area of Gesha Village and features breathtaking views of the valley below. This farm block is named after the pastoralist ethnic group, the Surma, who inhabit the lowlands toward the southwest.

In 2011 Adam and Rachel began developing a 500-hectare coffee farm in Gesha, Ethiopia with one vision in mind: to produce the best coffee in the world. After an exhaustive search, the estate location was chosen based on their strict criteria of altitude, ample rainfall, temperature patterns, rich virgin forest soil, old growth trees, and an existing coffee ecosystem.

Rare, exclusive and fetching a heavy price tag, Gesha is often associated with coffees from Panama when in fact cultivation of the Gesha varietal only began there in the 1960s.

Gesha is an original variety of coffee that was discovered in the 1930s in the mountains around the Southwestern town of Gesha, Ethiopia. Gesha trees grow tall and can be distinguished by their beautiful and elongated leaves. The quality of this coffee can be drastically improved when grown at extremely high elevation.

The Geisha revolution set off a intense search for Geisha among coffee buyers and a primal pilgrimage to Ethiopia to find the source of that flavor. The roads those buyers traveled brought them in a wood in far western Ethiopia near a small town called Gesha in the forests where coffee was born and still grows wild.

Gesha 1931 is from this place.

Its name reflects the place and year it was collected by scientists who fanned out on a research expedition in Ethiopia to catalogue its coffee varieties.

Stats

The winners of our November round is Skyzeh with a perfect score of 30 points! Followed by redshirt, Sandy and R with 28 points. Congrats!

TOP3 of the November 2024 round:
1. Skyzeh - 30 points
2. Sandy, Redshirt, R - 28 points

In terms of season standings, Edu and Jarg89 are leading with 186 points. Followed Angelrf with 178 points.

TOP3 of 2024 Season:
1. Jarg89 - 186 points
1. Edu - 186 points
3. Angelrf - 178 points

Roaster's line-up for the next two months:
DECEMBER 24 - Banibeans from Ljubljana 🇸🇮 plus special edition Mystery Coffee from 🇺🇸 Hydrangea (shipped as one bundle by Bani)
JANUARY 25 - Kawa from Paris 🇫🇷

Mystery Coffee League is sponsored by Acaia, Option-O, April, Graycano and Kruve. Thanks for supporting us!

Thanks for the pics Herman!