Shentawane

This coffee comes from a washing station called Shentawane in Sidama. Shentawane is located in the Bensa district. 

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown as a cash crop on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.

The washing stations serve as many as several hundred to sometimes a thousand or more producers, who deliver cherry throughout the harvest season. The blending of these cherries into day lots makes it so that each day will have a slightly different mix of these smallholders coffees. The Bensa district and Shentawane washing station have incredible reputations for producing sweet, clean and consistently exceptional coffees.