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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Echemo - Certified Organic, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Echemo - Certified Organic; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Echemo - Certified Organic; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Echemo - Certified Organic; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Echemo - Certified Organic

Roasted by Tim WendelboeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEthiopiaGoma, JimmaUnnamed Ethiopian landraces descended from Coche forest seedWashedArabicaSingle originEchemoKhalid ShifaTim WendelboeVariety undisclosed
🇪🇹EthiopiaWashed
Brand
—
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Region
Goma, Jimma
Town
Near Agaro
Farm / Station
Echemo
Farmer / Producer
Khalid Shifa
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Unnamed Ethiopian landraces descended from Coche forest seed
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Floral, White tea, Stone fruit
Fermentation
Wet fermented in clean water for about 24 hours
Drying
Dried on raised beds under shade nets for approximately 12–14 days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • varietyThe roaster says the cultivar names are unknown; Ethiopian heirloom/landrace is only a broad descriptor.
  • roast levelThe current official filter page does not publish a conventional roast label. Exact third-party listings range from Light to Light–Medium-Light, so no single enum value was forced.
  • gradeOrganic certification and specialty positioning are documented, but no formal green-coffee grade is published for this exact release.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is published.
  • harvest specific sentimentKofio's exact product-line aggregate does not identify review harvest years, so it cannot be isolated to the December 2025 crop.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Echemo - Certified Organic
  2. 02
    The brand
    Not disclosed
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Tim Wendelboe
  4. 04
    The variety
    Unnamed Ethiopian landraces descended from Coche forest seed
  5. 05
    The farm
    Echemo
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Khalid Shifa
  7. 07
    The region
    Goma, Jimma
  8. 08
    The country
    🇪🇹Ethiopia
From the producer

Khalid Shifa is the third-generation owner of Echemo. He inherited the farm from his father, is restoring native shade trees, and has strengthened lot separation, fermentation control and drying protocols.

From the roaster

Tim Wendelboe lists floral, white tea and stone fruit notes and identifies this as the most intense harvest from Echemo to date.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Traceable to one certified-organic high-altitude farm, one named farmer and a documented local seed lineage from Coche forest.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Selective harvest and sorting

Ripe cherries are selectively picked and sorted; daily pickings are kept separate for tighter quality control.

02
Washed processing

Cherries are depulped and wet-fermented in clean water for about 24 hours.

03
Shaded raised-bed drying

The washed coffee is dried slowly on raised beds under shade nets for approximately 12–14 days.

What was added?

No added flavoring or fruit is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No co-fermentation, inoculation or post-roast flavoring is disclosed.

Why it matters

Clean washed processing and controlled shaded drying support clarity in a high-density, high-altitude Ethiopian coffee.

What you might taste

Floral aromatics, white tea and stone fruit.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://timwendelboe.no/products/echemo-certified-organic
  • · https://timwendelboe.no/pages/echemo
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

What the internet is saying
WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-11-05. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

Strongly positive historical exact-product-line sentiment: Kofio reports 4.67/5 from 12 votes, eight written reviews, and 100% recommendation.

What people love

Reviewers praise stone-fruit character and describe the coffee as clean, complex, and light.

What people don't

Some reviewers find the profile subtle or potentially bland and say careful preparation is important.

Flavors people keep mentioning
stone fruitcleancomplexlightsubtlewhite tea
Outside ratings & rankings

Scores remain on their original scales. An outside review, competition score or historical release is not our tasting and cannot safely be merged into one five-star rating.Our method

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Positive — historical exact-product-line aggregate
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