Ethiopia Mullugeta Muntasha Natural

Blue Raspberry · Plum · Honey · Chocolate

A bold, jammy natural from a Cup of Excellence producer in one of Ethiopia's newest coffee-growing areas.

In the cup

It bursts with blue raspberry and ripe plum, with berry-jam sweetness and a twist of lime to keep it bright. As it cools, hints of black tea and florals come through. A smooth honey sweetness and a rich chocolate finish make it a bold, fruit-forward cup that stays remarkably clean.

The producer

Mullugeta Muntasha grew up in Bursa, a village in Ethiopia's Sidama region where coffee is still relatively new. As a young man he drove trucks hauling cherry to washing stations, then became a collector supplying the central market. As the climate made coffee more viable in Bursa, planting spread, and in 2021 Mullugeta came home and built his own drying station, Dawencho.

That same year his coffees placed second (with the Dawencho farmer group) and sixth (under his own name) in Ethiopia's Cup of Excellence. In 2022, four of the competition's top ten coffees were processed at Dawencho. Today the station processes cherry from Mullugeta's farm and about 600 neighboring growers.

The process

This is a natural: ripe cherries are dried whole on raised beds, so the fruit's sugars soak into the seed. That's where the jammy berry and plum come from.

Fair pricing

We bought this coffee from our import partner Crop to Cup, who has worked with Mullugeta since 2022. He was paid $6.25/lb FOB, which is $3.25/lb above the commodity "C" market price at booking.

Details

• Producer: Mullugeta Muntasha, Dawencho drying station
• Region: Bursa, Arbegona, Sidama, Ethiopia
• Altitude: 2,230 meters
• Variety: 74158
• Process: Natural
• Grade: G1
• Crop Year: 2026
• Importer: Crop to Cup
• Roast: Light