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Arbegona Rumudamo
Specs
Producers Smallholders of Arbegona
Station Rumudamo Station
Region Arbegona, Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia
Harvest December '25-January '26
Varieties Walega
Process Washed
Altitude 2,200 masl
Importer Quest
Arbegona Rumudamo
Producer Profile
This is now our fourth year buying coffee from Rumudamo station, and our sixth overall buying from Daye Bensa. We had the opportunity to visit Sidama in 2025 and see Rumudamo for ourselves. This season, we again purchased three lots from Daye Bensa's COE-winning station in Arbegona, Sidama. This season's washed lot shows all the articulate stone fruit character we've come to love from the station's washed coffee. Established in 1996 as producers, Daye Bensa has lived through all the turmoil that cottee growing and exporting entails in the region. Nowadays, they are a reference for excellence and resilience in Ethiopia and operate numerous stations around Sidama, working with outgrowers all over the region.
Brewing Arbegona Rumudamo
Head to our Grind & Brew Guide for coffee specific recipes and grind recommendations.
Sidama
Arbegona Woreda is part of the famous Sidama zone, where many of our favourite Ethiopian coffees are grown. Coffee is the main cash crop in Arbegona, where it benefits from very high altitudes and a favourable micro-climate.
Walega
Walega 74158 is one of six selections that were approved for release in 1974 as part of a CBD-resistance (Coffee Berry Disease) selection program. During the 1970's, researchers from the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre searched the forests in the Illuababora zone for CBD-resistant mother trees. Today 74158 is heavily propagated in South Western Ethiopia, and is one of two dominant varieties in Bensa, along with 74112.
Washed
For the Washed lot, the coffee is de-pulped once it arrives at the site, wet fermented for between 48-72 hours, washed and then later placed to dry in African beds to dry for between 8-12 days.
Transparency
IMPORTER | The Coffee Quest |
FARMGATE PRICINGWhat's this?FOB: "Freight on board," usually the price paid to the coffee exporter for coffee ready to ship. This includes price paid to the producer as well as milling, warehousing and transportation costs plus any intermediaries' fees and export costs. Farmgate: the price paid by the exporter or other buyer to the producer or producer organization. | -- |
FOB PRICING | $ |
SUBTEXT PAID | $8.50 USD per lb. |
LOT SIZE | Total lot size of ____. Subtext purchased 360 kg. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Quest has been working with Daye Bensa for six years. This is the sixth year we have purchased coffee from Daye Bensa. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 87 |