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Ethiopia

Where villages look nothing like villages The journey of Dimello coffee to Ethiopia Starting our route in Ethiopia, we headed toward Yirgacheffe & Sidamo, two areas renowned for their coffee. Especially the first, Yirgacheffe, stands out for its high-quality coffee, but when you actually get there, in the middle of nowhere, there is nothing that resembles a village… There are two dirt roads that intersect vertically with camps, one the right and left, which makes you wonder if you actually got there or not… The complex coffee route… Despite Ethiopia being globally known for the quality of its coffee, there is no organized form of cultivation. Here, unlike other producing countries, each grower has his own personal “garden” and cultivates...

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