Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Yaye Arbegona - Ethiopia; not a documentary photograph

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🇪🇹Ethiopia · Sidama

2025 Yaye Arbegona - Ethiopia

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

TagsEthiopia Sidama Ethiopian Landraces Washed Arabica Single origin Yaye washing station Sey Coffee Independent

🇪🇹EthiopiaWashedEthiopian Landraces

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Region

Sidama

Town

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Farm / Station

Yaye washing station

Farmer / Producer

—

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

—

Variety

Ethiopian Landraces

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

watermelon, lychee, complex botanicals

Fermentation

Underwater for 36 hours

Drying

Dried on raised beds for 10-14 days

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

individual producersSEY names the Yaye washing station but does not identify the individual smallholders contributing to this lot.
price usdThe unavailable first-party archive does not expose a reliable consumer retail price.
roast levelSEY does not publish a conventional light/medium/dark label for this exact release.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is published.
sentiment ratingCherrybook’s exact page reports a sparse evidence-of-quality index built from roaster-wide signals, explicitly not a cup score; it was excluded.

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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.

01
The name on the bag
2025 Yaye Arbegona - Ethiopia
Named on the bag
02
The brand
SEY Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Sey Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Ethiopian Landraces
Documented
05
The farm
Yaye washing station
Documented
06
The farmer
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
07
The region
Sidama
Documented
08
The country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Documented

From the producer

This lot was prepared at the Yaye washing station in Arbegona, Sidama. SEY describes 2025 as its third year working with the site; the exact contributing smallholders are not named.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery focused on sourcing dynamic, complex coffees through direct, progressive supply chain relationships.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Yaye is recognized as one of the highest-elevation washing stations globally, consistently yielding highly articulated and complex flavor profiles that the roaster prioritizes annually.

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

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

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.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Yaye washing station →

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