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Ethiopian Yrgacheffe


 
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One Pound 16oz
The Ethiopian Yrgacheffe coffees are washed and is the most favored
coffee grown in the Sidamo area of Ethiopia. It is very mild with berrylike,
dark chocolate undertones and flowery aromatics. Grown only on small family
plots. It was not known until 1975, when Haile Selassie was removed from power.
Until that time Yrgacheffe was cultivated strictly for the royal family and
was not known to the outside world until the early eighties.

Regent to the Empress Zauditu from 1916, Ras (Prince) Tafari Makonnen succeeded
to the throne of Ethiopia in 1930, proclaiming himself Haile Selassie
("Might of the Trinity").
An autocratic ruler, Haile Selassie, who claimed to be a direct descendant of
King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba. Selassie was also known as "The Lion King of Judah",
"King of Kings".
Selassie modernized Ethiopia but; by the 1970s the region's droughts and famines had
taken their toll.
Selassie was deposed in a military coup in 1974 and died while under arrest.
All references to his reign and name were removed from view & generations since
have no memory of The Lion King of Judah.


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