Adorsi sits at 2100 mdpl in central Yirgacheffe, a few kilometres out of the town. Faysel A. Yonis rebuilt the station and took its first cherries in 2018, and around eight hundred smallholders deliver here off plots in Aricha, Reko, Gersi and Idido.
Two landraces come in together. Kurume is the small one, hard and dense, named after a local fruit, and what it gives is tea. Wolisho is the larger bean off the bigger tree, and it gives citrus and a winey brightness. Most Gedeo coffee is some ratio of the two, and most of the time you never find out which is which.
A washed lot is where you can. Stripping the mucilage before drying takes away the layer that blurs them together, and both landraces arrive with their own outline intact. The lemon here is Wolisho. The tea is Kurume. They are not competing for the same space.
Lemon leads, clean and bright. Honey fills underneath it. Matcha runs green and faintly savoury through the middle, and brown sugar closes it out.