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Experience classic and complex Ethiopian coffee flavors of peach, florals, sugarcane sweetness, and apricot. Banko Gotiti produces such favorably memorable coffees, we fondly remember experiencing it long before we even roasted coffee. Now, we're honored to have our own hand at roasting it and love it more than ever… (indeed, we do roast to our own taste preference).

Banko Gotiti is a village in the Gedeb district of Ethiopia's Gedeo Zone, where Yirgacheffe is located. The Banko Gotiti cooperative was founded in 2012, separately from the Worka cooperative, which is a larger organization. Banko Gotiti has about 300 members, who grow a mix of heirloom Ethiopian varieties of coffee.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically traceable to the washing station level, where smallholder farmers—many of whom own less than 1/2 hectare of land, and as little as 1/8 hectare on average—deliver cherry by weight to receive payment at a market rate. The coffee is sorted and processed into lots without retaining information about whose coffee harvest is in which bag or which lot.