Oma – Named after the respected and loved religious leader of the Meanit people.
Exotic aromas of tea rose, with the profound scent of jasmine. Delicate flavors of peach, apricot, candied fruit, melon, satsuma mandarin supported by a honey sweetness
Gesha 1931
This is a selection made from the diverse forest population that closely resembles the Panamanian Geisha. This selection was made by looking at the plant morphology, bean shape and size, as well as its cup profile.
A coffee that perfectly balances the sweetness of honey and peach with the spice notes of turmeric and black tea.
Special Fermentation
For this category, we employ proprietary processing methods to provide extra depth to the flavor notes of Gesha Village coffees. Innovators Reserve offerings provide a profound sensory experience that pays tribute to the unique characteristics of our coffees.
Tier: Representing 10% of our total farm production, these exquisite coffees are full of complex flavors and super rare. The rarities are the top coffee Gesha Village produces and are frequently chosen by internationally competing baristas.
Semi anaerobic natural process: This type of coffee is produced by fermenting freshly harvested cherries in a sub-terrain concrete tank for 109 hours. The coffee is then delivered to raised African beds and dried in the sun as we would in our traditional natural process.
In the far western reaches of Ethiopia, mere kilometers from the South Sudanese border, lie the dense, wildly sprouting jungles of West Omo zone. It’s a place of stunning natural beauty, where from a high-extending plateau one can take in the expanse of the ancient, sprawling forest. This breathtaking landscape is home to Gesha Village Coffee Estate, the 471-hectare coffee farm we have built from the ground up over the last eleven years. This has been our labor of love, and we’re extremely proud to be producing coffees as awe-inspiring as our surroundings.
The Perfect Spot
For months we searched for the perfect spot—one with high elevation, ample rainfall, temperate climates, and other crucial natural factors needed to produce coffee of excellent quality. We found it in West Omo. The untouched landscape provided us with the unique opportunity to build the coffee farm of our dreams from the ground up. But it also offered us a one-of-a-kind experience: close proximity to the Gori Gesha forest, the variety’s birthplace and site of the Panamanian Geisha discovery in the 1930s. Close proximity to the Gori Gesha forest, the variety’s birthplace and site of the Panamanian Geisha discovery in the 1930s.
Cultivating the Land
We quickly got to work, harvesting a seed selection of wild Gesha plants from the Gori Gesha forest. With that prized stock in hand, we then spent month after tireless month turning our remote piece of land into a working coffee farm, capable of producing some of the world’s best Gesha coffee. In the process, we have been helping to create a coffee industry in Gesha’s birthplace. Western Ethiopia has historically been largely disconnected from the global specialty-coffee market, but now world-class Gesha coffee is available just a stone’s throw from where the variety originated.
At Gesha Village, we strive for uncompromising quality in each step of cultivation and processing. Our lots are intensely floral and fruity—signature elements of all our coffees—and we offer them through several channels and labels.
We meticulously select the coffees offered in lots through a rigorous cupping process at our coffee lab in Addis Ababa. Following the official protocols of the Specialty Coffee Association, we evaluate the lots over several rounds of cupping to determine how they will be offered to buyers.We have a diverse range of coffees with complex flavors from Gesha Village Coffee Estate offered in our various labels. From the extremely high-end and delectable Rarities to the our fully traceable Single-Terroir
Rarities- representing only 10% of the total farm production, these exquisite coffees are full of comlex flavours, score 90+ on the SCA scale and super rare. The rarities are the top coffees Gesha Village produces and are frequently chosen for competitions by leading competing baristas on the international stage.
