Gerse – Heirloom

Name: Gerse – Heirloom
Brand: Sweven
Availability: InStock

lemon · tea · floral

Citrus Tea-like Floral

£64.00/kg

54% above similar on their 200 g bag

£64.00 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £1.15 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 200 g bag at £80.00/kg against 147 coffees from 106 roasters in washed from Ethiopia (standard bag, 200–350 g), so that every coffee is compared on the same size.

Price observed 4 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
200 g	£16.00	£80.00/kg
1 kg	£64.00	£64.00/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 20% cheaper per kilo than the 200 g.

How it sits among coffee from Ethiopia

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Ethiopia: 539 of 857 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Sweven describe this coffee as citrus, floral, tea-like. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Ethiopia; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

tea-like is unusual here — 16% of coffee from Ethiopia are described that way.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Ethiopia coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Ethiopia

Region

Yirgacheffe

Process

washed

Variety

Heirloom

Not stated

farm or estate, producer, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Variety

“Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia – Cascara-Fermented Washed Heirloom An exceptional Ethiopian heirloom from Gerse, meticulously prepared by Mikiyas Bogale through an innovative cascara-fermented washed process that brings a new dimension to traditional Yirgacheffe coffee.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

Delicate and beautifully nuanced, with refreshing lemon-tea acidity, refined stone-fruit sweetness, a light, silky texture, and a lingering honeyed floral perfume… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

Region

Processing

Tasting notes

A further 1 fact on this page was read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for it.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.