Why We Love This Coffee

Danche is our new resident Ethiopian coffee for the year.

This time, we wanted something washed, clean, and easy to come back to. A coffee that still has the delicate florals and fruit that we love from Ethiopia, but with a little more structure, clarity, and everyday drinkability.

This lot comes from Danche Kebele in Gedeb, Yirgacheffe, one of the most well-known areas for expressive Ethiopian coffee. In the cup, we’re finding the kind of profile that feels familiar in the best way: soft stone fruit, black tea, honeyed sweetness, citrus, and florals.

It’s not here to be the loudest coffee on the table. It’s here because it’s beautiful, balanced, and reliable. The kind of washed Ethiopian we want to keep reaching for.

Origin

Danche Kebele is located near Worka, in the Gedeb district of the Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia. The farms sit around 1,950–2,250 masl, giving the coffee the high elevation and slow cherry development that often contributes to the clarity and elegance we love in washed Ethiopian coffees.

The area is known for producing bright, floral, and tea-like coffees, and this lot fits that profile really nicely. It carries a clean fruit character with a gentle sweetness and a transparent finish.

Producer & Washing Station

This coffee comes through the Danche area, where cherries are delivered by smallholder producers from nearby farms. Peninsula notes that the Danche washing station sources cherries from over 250 farmers, with farms generally ranging from 0.5 to 5 hectares. The farms are close to the station, helping keep cherry delivery fresh and consistent.

At the washing station, the coffee goes through careful cherry selection, pulping, fermentation, washing, and drying on raised African beds. These steps help preserve the clean, structured profile that makes this coffee so enjoyable.

Variety

This lot is made up of Ethiopian heirloom varieties.

“Heirloom” is a broad term often used for Ethiopia’s many local coffee varieties, many of which are not neatly separated or identified in the way we might see with varieties like Bourbon, Caturra, or Geisha. What matters most here is the final cup: delicate florals, citrus, stone fruit, and that classic tea-like structure.

Processing

Washed.

After harvesting, the cherries are sorted, pulped, fermented, washed, and then dried on raised beds. Compared to a natural Ethiopian, this gives the coffee a cleaner and more transparent expression. The fruit is still present, but it feels lighter, clearer, and more structured.

This is why we chose Danche as a resident coffee. It gives us that beautiful Ethiopian character without becoming too heavy or too wild.

Tasting Notes

We’re tasting nectarine, apricot, black tea, honey, soft citrus, and florals.

The cup is sweet, clean, and layered. As it cools, the stone fruit becomes clearer, with a gentle black tea structure and a honey-like sweetness through the finish.

Transparency

Green price for this lot was $27 AUD per kilogram before shipping.

At Two Places, we share our green prices because we want coffee to feel more transparent. It gives you a clearer picture of what we pay for the coffees we buy, and helps connect the final cup back to the producers, exporters, importers, and people involved before it reaches us.