Maggie's Light Roast

Guji coffee beans being dried on beds.

Amongst the most sought-after of Ethiopia’s regions, but also one of the newest officially recognised coffee growing areas, Guji consistently produces the quality we love. Situated in Southern Oromia, surrounded by Yirgacheffe to the West and Sidama to the North, Guji is an area of unmistakable natural beauty with lush greenery and sublime mountain ranges making it ideal coffee country.

Compared to it’s more famous neighbor, Guji is comparatively sparsely populated and planted with younger trees than Yirgacheffe. With greater distances between washing stations and less overall congestion in the area, Guji produces exemplary coffees that deserve its individual status as a growing region.

Being a remote and wild landscape, roughly 10% of the Oromo people of Guji live in towns, the majority being smallholder farmers, cultivating coffee amongst other crops on their land.

Despite being a relatively small area, Guji manages to showcase a wonderful array of flavor profiles, as a direct consequence of some of the most fertile and nutrient rich volcanic soils in the country. With citrus and stone fruits in abundance, coupled with intense florals, bright acidity and a juicy mouth-feel, these medium body coffees, both washed and natural alike, showcase the quality Guji is famous for.

Guji coffee is grown and processed at the fertile highlands of southern Ethiopia. It is grown in soil that is rich in nutrients.

This is the story of Maggie’s Light roast.