EthiopiaOut of stockda Matteo Roastery · Canada
Ethiopia - Benti Halo
rooibos tea · nectarine · Floral
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What da Matteo Roastery says about this coffee
250 grams of whole roasted coffee beans.
Processed at the Halo Washing Station, this coffee is made up of cherries delivered by surrounding smallholders. It is sourced through Origin Land Coffee.
Halo sits at 2100 masl, close to the Worka Town in Gedeb. Halo is the one of largest growing areas in Gedeb, with a total of 1240 hectares of coffee farms.
This specific station buys cherries from approximately 170 farmers all located in the area. Their farms are on average between 0.5 to 2 hectares in size, and sit between 1925 and 2110 masl.
The cherries are placed directly in the hopper that is connected to the pulping machine (a traditional Agaarde Disc Pulper). The coffee flows from the hopper down to the pulper, and the pulper removes the skin and pulp. The coffee is then fermented under water in tanks for an average of 72 hours. The parchment is soaked in clean water and then dried on raised beds for approximately 8 - 20 days. The coffee is dried in layers of 2-8 cm, depending on the climate, the type of tables, and the stage of drying.
Last(!!) batch roasted: 2025-02-04
Taste profile: Floral & sweet with notes of rooibos tea & nectarine. Process method: Washed Arabica variety…
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What the roaster says about where it came from
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
da Matteo Roastery describe this coffee as fruity, 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 — 18% 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
Where each fact came from
Altitude, highest
“Their farms are on average between 0.5 to 2 hectares in size, and sit between 1925 and 2110 masl.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Altitude, lowest
“Their farms are on average between 0.5 to 2 hectares in size, and sit between 1925 and 2110 masl.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Flavour families
…batch roasted: 2025-02-04 Taste profile: Floral & sweet with notes of rooibos tea & nectarine. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Country of origin
Process method: Washed Arabica variety: Heirloom Altitude: 1 950 - 2 100 masl Harvested: February 2024 Green coffee importer: Nordic Approach Ethiopia - Benti Halo… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Region
“Halo sits at 2100 masl, close to the Worka Town in Gedeb.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Tasting notes
…batch roasted: 2025-02-04 Taste profile: Floral & sweet with notes of rooibos tea & nectarine. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
A further 3 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.
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.
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