Ethiopia

His Majesty the Coffee · Varese

Shentawane – Ethiopia

Name: Shentawane – Ethiopia
Brand: His Majesty the Coffee
Availability: InStock

lemon tea · elderflower · apricot

Citrus Tea-like Floral FruityFor filter

56,00 €/kg

56,00 € for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about 1,01 € for an 18 g espresso dose

Price observed 5 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
250 g	16,00 €	64,00 €/kg
1 kg	56,00 €	56,00 €/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 13% cheaper per kilo than the 250 g.

What His Majesty the Coffee says about this coffee

Country

Ethiopia

Region

Shentawane – Sidama

Producer

Ayla Shentawane

Arabica variety

Heirloom

Altitude

1950-2150 masl

Process

washed

Tasting notes

lemon tea – elderflower – apricot

Suggested for

filter

The Ayla Washing Station, situated in the village of Shantawene within Ethiopia’s Sidama region, is a notable hub for specialty coffee production. Operated by Testi Coffee, a family-owned enterprise founded by Faysel A. Yonis, Ayla is one of several stations under their management, processing coffees from nearby villages including Bombe and Shantawene.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.

The washing stations serve as many as several hundred to sometimes a thousand or more producers, who deliver cherry throughout the harvest season: The blending of these cherries into day lots makes it virtually impossib…

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

Region

Sidama

Producer

Ayla Shentawane

Process

washed

Variety

Heirloom

Altitude

1950 to 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.

His Majesty the Coffee describe this coffee as fruity, 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 — 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

Flavour families

Tasting notes lemon tea – elderflower – apricot… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roasted for

…filter specialty coffee Filter Floral Fruity Home Spicy / Herbal… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

Tasting notes lemon tea – elderflower – apricot… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 8 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.