Ethiopia

Hunkute, Washed Heirloom Cultivars, Ethiopia

bergamot · candied lemon peel · apricot · clementine

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What Drop Coffee says about this coffee

Flavour description: A bright aroma of dried apricot and bergamot. The cup is complex yet light-bodied, with flavour notes of candied lemon peel, apricot, and a hint of clementine. It finishes dry, reminiscent of Assam tea.

Colour: Mild yellow Category: Curious Producers: Hunkute. The cooperative has 2149 members. Varietal: Traditional Ethiopian Heirloom varieties and JARC (Jimma Agricultural Research Center) selections such as 74110 and 74112. Process: Washed Washing station: Hunkute Site 2 Location: Dalle, Sidamo Union: Sidama Union Harvest: January 2026 Elevation: 2150 meters above sea level Years of relationship: 15 years, since 2011 Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was US$4.95 /lb

Hunkute is an extremely special coffee to us at Drop Coffee. We’ve been buying and roasting Hunkute for over 13 years, so it plays a huge role in our portfolio as well as our history. Hunkute is located in the Dalle region in Sidamo and is made up of two washing stations (site 1 & site 2) where the coffee is processed and belongs to the Hunkute Sidama Cooperative, which is made up of 2149 members, most of whom are small-scale farmers from the surrounding area. This harve…

Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. We keep the first 1,200 characters of it, which is why it stops where it does. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Ethiopia, Kenya

Region

Sidama, Jimma

Producer

Hunkute

Process

washed

Variety

Heirloom

Altitude

2150 m

Not stated

farm or estate, 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.

How it sits among coffee from Ethiopia

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Ethiopia: 927 of 2,375 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Drop Coffee describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet, citrus. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Ethiopia; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Ethiopia, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

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

What Drop Coffee says about itself

Organic

“In 2018, we relocated our roastery to Rosersberg, just north of Stockholm, where we currently operate as a certified organic roaster.” their page (opens in a new tab)

These are claims the roaster makes about its business, not about this coffee, and we have not checked them against any register.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, lowest

“Process: Washed Washing station: Hunkute Site 2 Location: Dalle, Sidamo Union: Sidama Union Harvest: January 2026 Elevation: 2150 meters above sea level Years of relationship: 15 years, since 2011 Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was US$4.95 /lb Hunkute is an extremely special coffee to us at Drop Coffee.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Varietal: Traditional Ethiopian Heirloom varieties and JARC (Jimma Agricultural Research Center) selections such as 74110 and 74112.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Flavour description: A bright aroma of dried apricot and bergamot.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“In Ethiopia there are over 1.1 million smallholder coffee farmers, delivering cherries to local washing stations.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

Processing

Tasting notes

“Flavour description: A bright aroma of dried apricot and bergamot.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

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.