What is a gesha, and how does Aricha taste?
Natural Yirgacheffe Aricha is a G1-grade Ethiopian coffee from the Kebel Aricha processing plant, tied to wild Gesha varieties that Ninety Plus sought in Ethiopia from 2000. What is a gesha in this context is a wild forest-grown plant harvested near 1,850 meters, named after the Aricha area rather than a single farm.
The cup is known as a fruit bomb: cherry, peach, thick fruit jam, cream, and passion fruit, with soft citrus, berry and peach aromas, lemon and grape acidity, and a long floral finish. Dry aroma leans to cherry, berries, and plum; wet aroma is intense floral and fruity. It brews well as pour-over or cold brew.
Yirgacheffe is synonymous with Ethiopian specialty coffee, and Front Street's sun-dried Yirgacheffe Aricha is a standout among them. This G1-grade coffee from the Kebel Aricha processing plant has stunned the coffee world under the name "the strongest fruit bomb." This article will take you deep into Aricha's origin story, unique geographic environment, green bean appearance, and processing details, and analyze its rich flavor layers—cherry, peach, passion fruit, and creamy aromas interwoven, with a long floral finish. Whether you are a first-timer or a seasoned enthusiast, you will find the right direction for tasting it.
What are the characteristics and taste of Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried Yirgacheffe Aricha? Flavor description? How to drink it correctly?
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Aricha / Yirgacheffe
Variety: Wild & naturally grown
Processing method: Natural Sundried / Idido processing plant
Ethiopia
Since 2000, Ninety Plus has been searching for wild Gesha (Geisha) varieties in Ethiopia. The wild varieties in the Beloya and Aricha areas established Ninety Plus's position in green coffee.
Because it was harvested from native forests at an altitude of 1,850 meters, it was named after the harvesting area, "Aricha."
Flavor profile: Cherry, peach, thick fruit jam, cream, passion fruit
Dry aroma: Cherry, berries, plum
Wet aroma: Intense and highly aggressive floral and fruity notes
Front Street sun-dried Yirgacheffe Aricha is a stunning coffee. Its rich mouthfeel has earned it the title of "the strongest fruit bomb." It has soft citrus notes and aromas of berries and peach, a smooth body with creamy aroma, wrapped in lemon and grape acidity, a richly changing finish, and a floral expression at its finest!
(Note: NINETY Plus is a supplier of top-tier specialty green coffee that scores above 90 points in cupping.)
Unlike ordinary companies that buy green coffee, it builds a complete system from variety, cultivation, processing, roasting, to brewing, and continuously improves coffee quality through information from every link in the system. Tracing back to the source of the coffee production line, it builds partnerships with producers. Company employees even roll up their sleeves and work alongside local farmers, trying to stabilize quality and yield. It also uses production-and-sales cooperation to improve replanting and green bean processing techniques. It mainly provides green coffee from Ethiopia and Panama that has undergone refined processing and special varieties.
Small in quantity but excellent in quality, the ones more familiar to the Taiwan market, such as Aricha and Beloya, these two coffees with special fruity flavors, as well as rising stars such as Nekisse and Kernaye, have one after another caused sensations in the coffee world.
Unique Geographic Environment
Yirga Cheffe is a small town in Ethiopia at an altitude of 1,700-2,100 meters. It is one of the highest coffee-producing regions in the world and also synonymous with Ethiopian specialty coffee. Lake Turkana, Lake Abaya, and Lake Chamo bring abundant moisture here. In the Rift Valley, represented by the Misty Valley, fog lingers all year round, it is like spring in all four seasons, with gentle breezes, cool and humid, and thousands of coffee trees thrive and multiply, giving rise to the unique floral and fruity aromas of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee, ambiguously interwoven and endlessly changing, with a distinctive terroir.
There are many high-quality coffee processing plants in the Yirgacheffe area. Many coffees become many times more valuable because they come from these processing plants. Front Street sun-dried Yirgacheffe produced by Kebel Aricha Mill is one of them. This coffee is also what we often call ARICHA beans. It is processed by the Kebel Aricha processing plant through a refined sun-dried method and then classified by ECX as Gr.1 or G1 (the highest grade of Ethiopian coffee), and is hailed as the "King of Fruits."
Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried Yirgacheffe Aricha (Yirgacheffe Aricha Grade 1) beans are yellow-green in color, the typical color of sun-dried coffee, with uniform, plump beans and few defective beans.
It is exported in ordinary jute bags. The bags are printed with basic coffee information (processing plant, exporter, ICO code, processing method, region). Inside the jute bag is an agricultural product plastic bag. This Front Street sun-dried Yirgacheffe Aricha coffee is best able to express its characteristics through a light, slow roasting method.
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The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
