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Shantawene

Shantawene! This freshly landed coffee comes from one of Sidama’s most celebrated coffee-growing villages, sourced through Assefa Dukamo and his family’s renowned Daye Bensa operation. Set high in Ethiopia’s southern coffee-growing region, Shantawene is known for producing expressive, complex coffees shaped by high-altitude growing conditions and the work of local smallholder farmers. Daye Bensa works closely with growers across the area, bringing carefully selected lots to the specialty coffee market. Expect a ripe, fruit-forward cup with notes of blueberry and juicy peach, lifted by the delicate floral aroma of jasmine.

Ethiopian Heirloom
Natural
€17,00
€17,00
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Ethiopia

Shantawene coffee is grown at around 2,000–2,400 metres in Bensa, Sidama, where smallholder farmers cultivate coffee on the surrounding mountain slopes. Daye Bensa brings cherries from these high-altitude farms to its Shantawene processing station. For this Natural lot, the ripe cherries are dried whole on raised beds and turned regularly so they dry evenly, letting the fruit shape the sweetness and body of the cup.

Daye Bensa was founded in 1996 by brothers Assefa and Mulugeta Dukamo, who grew up in Bensa, Sidama. They built the business from their family’s coffee-growing roots into a producer and exporter working with 2,500+ farmers across 71 washing stations in the Bensa woreda. At Shantawene, station owner Assefa Dukamo Korma works with local growers, bringing together coffee from surrounding villages for processing and export. For Shantawene, 1,100 farmers deliver their coffee cherries to the Gafisse Washing and Drying Station.

Daye Bensa’s investment in coffee-growing communities goes beyond buying cherries. Through its annual Farmers’ Day programme, the company has paid additional bonuses to farmers for seven years, distributing more than $1.5 million among 2,500 farmers by 2024. It has also built five schools for farming communities in Sidama, helping support children’s education in the areas where its coffee is grown. These schools can host over 1,400 students, provide better education to local children and spare them long journeys to get to school.