Raro
ETHIOPIA
The story of Debela Negusse and his company, SNAP Specialty Coffee, began in 2017 when the entrepreneur formerly involved in importing computer equipment purchased his first washing station in Guji. A year later he founded the Raro station in Uraga. Raro produces clean and crisp washed coffees thanks to its tile-covered fermentation tanks, while they also have the capacity to experiment with new processing methods. Such a special lot is our current coffee which acquired its over-ripe tropical fruity profile by a 72-hours semi-anaerobic fermentation.
Ethiopia is the home of extraordinary coffees. Ethiopian coffee is instantly recognizable even in blind cuppings due to its distinctive flavour made up of several hundreds of indigenous arabica varietals grown wild in the various micro-climates of the country. 95% of Ethiopia’s 300 000 tonnes of coffee export is supplied by more than a million small, independent farmers. The rest is grown by an increasing number of private and state-owned plantations. Recently the Ethiopian government began reforming the export system to open the market and allow exporters and bigger farms (estates) to export their own coffee with one condition: the selling price must always be higher than that which would have been fixed by the ECX (Ethiopian Commodity Exchange) for a comparable quality of coffee. Several farms are currently in the process of applying for export licenses and have begun to detach themselves from the washing stations by processing and selling their own coffee.