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Ethiopia Shakiso Doyenne Natural - Cafe Only
- varietyThe exact product page and independent catalog do not identify a variety.
- altitudeNo altitude is stated for this exact collective release.
- harvestNo harvest or crop year is stated for this exact release.
- individual farmsThe coffee is attributed to a collective of twenty-three Shakiso smallholders; individual farms are not named.
FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.
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- 01The name on the bagEthiopia Shakiso Doyenne Natural - Cafe Only
- 02The brand
- 03The roaster
- 04The varietyNot disclosed
- 05The farm
- 06The farmer
- 07The region
- 08The country
The coffee is grown by twenty-three smallholder women producers located in the Shakiso area of the Guji region. These producers work in collaboration with Sookoo to ensure high-quality, traceable coffee production.
Onyx Coffee Lab features this natural-process lot as a celebration of female-led coffee production. They emphasize transparency in their sourcing and provide detailed information regarding the producers and the project's impact.
An exact, traceable collective release from twenty-three women smallholders in Shakiso, presented through the Doyenne project and sold in a cafe-size format.
WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?
The exact release is identified as natural process; the coffee dried in the fruit before milling.
The product is attributed to twenty-three smallholder women producers in Shakiso rather than to one named farm or individual producer.
No fruit, flavoring or other post-harvest ingredient is documented.
No evidence of co-fermentation, inoculation or flavoring was found for the exact release.
Natural processing commonly amplifies fruit character, but the listed pineapple, strawberry, jasmine and sweet-tea notes are Onyx’s descriptors, not an owner tasting score.
Onyx lists pineapple, strawberry, jasmine and sweet tea.
- · https://onyxcoffeelab.com/products/ethiopia-shakiso-doyenne-natural-cafe-only
- · https://waveform.coffee/radar/offerings/7c108fbb-1124-4c8d-9f8b-b6785959da2d
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.
What the internet is saying about this coffee
Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-25) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.
Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.
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