Ethiopia – Wako Jegso (roasted 08 Dec 2025)

Name: Ethiopia - Wako Jegso (roasted 08 Dec 2025)
SKU: 9869
Availability: OutOfStock

Original price was: €16.75.Current price is: €11.00.

We are featuring something very unique, from the birthplace of coffee, from Ethiopia. Without a doubt, our absolute favourite origin to taste because of the complexity of flavour. However what makes this coffee special is also the contribution it makes back to the producer who grows this coffee. This is both a coffee with impact and grown in a sustainable manner. An ethical coffee grown with care for the environment and supporting a producer by paying substantially more for his harvest.

Mecota Trading is an Ethiopian exporting company specialising in green coffee sourced from smallholder farmers across Ethiopia’s coffee-growing regions. Established in 2023, Mecota Trading supports farmers by consolidating microlots into exportable quantities while promoting traceable and direct trade practices. The company’s model aims to facilitate fair, sustainable trade and to enhance transparency in Ethiopia’s coffee market, particularly as an alternative to the traditional Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, where traceability is often limited.

Tasting Notes : Milk Chocolate, blackberry & clove notes, super balanced and rich

Process: Natural

Arabica Variety: Native Heirloom
Harvest Period: Mar – Sep

Weight	N/A

Brew Method

Ground or Wholebean

Bag Size

Clear

We source this coffee through Omwani, an African-focused green coffee company built on long term relationships and real impact. We love working with Omwani as they prioritise trust over transactions, ensuring producers stay at the heart of everything we do.

This coffee comes from Wako Jegso, and his farm is located in Halo Bariti kebele at 2100 m.a.s.l and is part of the Lemlem Ejersa farmer group.

Wako and his family grow 74110 and Kurume coffee, but also cultivate fruit trees and practise beekeeping on the same land.

A father of 18 children (10 daughters and 8 sons), Wako inherited the land from his father and has continued the family’s coffee farming tradition. For many years, he sold his cherries to local coffee processing stations, though the income was modest and not very rewarding. However, with proper support from Mercota Trading and market access into Europe from our good friends at Omwani, Wako’s farm holds great potential for producing specialty coffee that reflects the rich heritage and biodiversity of Yirgacheffe. It also means he will now command a premium for his coffee and will be less exposed to the fluctuating commodity price of coffee.