Moka Sidama Bombe - €18.00 incl. VAT / 250g
DWD runs several washing and drying stations in the Sidama region. The one that produces Bombe coffee is located in the village of the same name, at an altitude of 1,950 metres. This station, called Wax General Trading, offers washed, plain and anaerobically fermented coffees, all processed with the utmost care.
The cherries prepared here are collected from various small producers in neighbouring villages.
Coffee has been grown in this region for a long time, as part of a mixed farming system that enables farmers to diversify their income and ensure the harvest of food crops.
Producer Ato Dukale
Ato Dukale was born around Bensa, in the Sidama region, where his parents already had a coffee farm. At a very young age, he started out in small businesses in the region, such as cane sugar. But his interest soon turned completely to coffee. He travelled extensively in his native region to collect a few bags from the various Sidama farmers. At the end of the 1980s, he built his first washing station in Daye Bensa, which he called ‘Awraja and his family’. Awraja was the name of the department where he lived when he was young, a name used under the Derg but which has since disappeared. Above all, it was Ato Dukale's nickname when he was a renowned volleyball player and travelled the country with his team, under the colours of his district: Bensa Awraja!
Dukale Wakayo Dakola now has 16 collection centres in the Sidama and Yirgacheffe regions. The company has now been taken over by Ato Dukale's sons, who, along with their father, put all their rigour into producing top-quality coffees.
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Sidama terroir
The territories covered by the Sidama appellation are more than 500 km wide, so the coffees have very different profiles! Sidama is the name of the appellation, but it is above all the name of the people of southern Ethiopia. Sidamo is a negative way of referring to the Sidama people of the south.
The appellation is divided into 4 areas simply distinguished by the letters A, B, C and D. Each of these four areas offers a specific cup profile. The Sidama A appellation, with its sweetness and notes of yellow fruit (apricot, peach), is the one with the typical Sidama / Sidamo profile.
Each appellation is linked to a specific geographical area, based on administrative boundaries. For example, the Sidama A appellation covers :
- the Guji zone, which comprises the districts (woreda) of Odo Shakisso, Uraga, Hambela, Kercha, Adola and Anassora.
- the Sidama zone, comprising the districts of Bensa, Chiré and Aroressa.
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