Keramo 74158

Country: Ethiopia
Varietals: 74158
Process: Washed
Producer: Mate Matewos
Elevation: 2,000 MASL
Tasting Notes: Hibiscus, berry, Melon juice，black tea

About Mate Matewos:

2nd place 2024 Cup of Excellence competition Mate Matewos is a coffee producer the founders of Swift Coffee Sourcing have partnered with in various ways since the 2016–2017 coffee harvest.

He is part of a special group of Single Farmers who originally brought their cherries to a washing station Swift exclusively supported, while each year brought more and more isolation of the lots until, going on a decade later, Swift offers this microlot from Mate’s Keramo area farm.

Year after year, Swift have hosted an all-expenses-paid conference for Mate and his cohort in Sidama, engaging in training, debriefing from both sides about the challenges and opportunities that have come through their work together, and doing the messy-but-necessary work that is relationship coffee sourcing. His prestigious placing at Cup of Excellence only cemented this relationship.