Ethiopia • Gemechu

$24.00

The Coffee

Producer- Gemechu Site

Region - Mewa, Nensebo

Processing- Natural

Varietal- 74158

Tasting- Pomegranate, Lemon, Sugar Cane

The Producer & Coffee

Sidamo sits in the southern Ethiopian highlands, a region that has been growing coffee longer than most of the world has been drinking it. The Gemechu Site draws cherry from smallholder farmers working land at around 1,800 meters, where cool nights and fertile volcanic soils slow the fruit's development and concentrate its sugars. Mixed heirloom varieties, the kind that have never needed a formal name because they've simply always been here, are picked selectively at peak ripeness and laid on raised drying beds to dry whole. No depulping, no shortcuts. The fruit does the work. What comes through in the cup is a direct expression of that place: clean, bright, and rooted in something real.
Once uniformly ripe cherries arrive at our station, they are immediately laid out on African drying beds, where they are carefully dried over an average of 22 days. To ensure even drying, our team turns the cherries every hour and covers them with shade between 12–3 PM daily to protect them from direct sunlight. When the cherries reach a moisture level of 10–11%, they are sealed in GrainPro bags to enhance and preserve their aroma. The coffee is then stored in jute bags and rested for a minimum of 45 days before dry milling.

The Importer

Falcon Coffee

Falcon Coffees is new to the Makeworth supply chain in 2026, and they made a strong first impression.

Founded in the UK in 2008, Falcon has grown into a genuinely global operation with origin representation in Peru, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda, and sales offices in Lewes, Austin, and Berlin. They source across 26 origins on behalf of more than 1,000 roasters worldwide, which on paper sounds like the kind of scale that sacrifices depth for breadth. In practice, it hasn't.

What caught our attention was the consistency. Multi-origin importers can be uneven — strong in one region, average in another. Falcon's lots across every origin we sampled held up. Our QC team cupped through their offer list without a weak link, which is rarer than it should be at this scale. They don't dictate prices from origin — producers and exporters set their own price based on cost of production, market conditions, variety, and cup scores, and that philosophy shows in the quality that actually arrives. 

We're looking forward to building this relationship and seeing what they bring to the table in the seasons ahead.

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