Ethiopia - Buncho - Honey
Crisp autumn mornings just got better. This Ethiopian Buncho Honey process delivers delicate fruit notes and a refined sweetness that feels tailor-made for cooler weather. With its bright, clean finish, it's the perfect companion to your fall routine. Snag a bag before they're gone!
Coffee info:
We Taste: Wildflower Honey, Pomegranate, Golden Berries
Process: Honey
Varietal: 74158, Heirloom
MASL: 1920-2020
From our pals at The Coffee Quest:
The Buncho Washing Station is located in the Shantawene kebele or Village and is part of the Bensa area, in Sidama, Ethiopia. Managed by Asefa Dukamo Korma, the site sits at an elevation of 1,920 – 2,020 m.a.s.l, high up in the beautiful mountains of Sidama, and is dedicated to producing Washed, Honey, Natural and Anaerobic processes. More than 800 farmers from the region contribute with their cherries in this site, mostly with 74158 Variety.
Once the cherries arrive at the Buncho Station, they are placed in water for sorting and removing floaters. The cherries are then de-pulped and laid to dry with its mucilage on raised African beds. To ensure an even drying, the parchment is constantly moved each day, taking 12-15 days, depending on the weather, until reaching the desired humidity.
Established in 1996 as producers, Daye Bensa has lived through all the turmoils that coffee growing and exporting entails in the region. Daye Bensa works with various communities of out-growers from whom they receive cherries and work with multiple washing stations in the Bensa, Sidama area, including some of which they own.
In addition to Buncho, over the years, in both the US and Europe, we have worked with some of their other washing stations, notably: Rumudamo, Hamasho, and Bombe. Fun Fact: the producers who deliver cherry to the Buncho Station are actually neighbors to the farmers who deliver to the Bombe Station. As such, we have also seen quite interesting profiles out of Bombe as well!
Daye Bensa is no stranger to quality and has learned how to produce high quality coffees: in 2020, they won 7th place in the COE, in 2021 8th place and in 2022, 2nd place
