Osito have been working with Ture Waji since the very beginning of Sookoo. In fact, David, who does the majority of our Ethiopian sourcing, purchased coffee from Ture for a number of years prior to the establishment of Sookoo. In those days Ture was managing farms/production in Guji, southern Ethiopia, a part of Ethiopia that Ture knows as well as anyone (and better than most). This is, of course, where Ture gets his nickname, “The King of Guji.” The land, the people, the coffees… Ture knows them all better than anyone we have ever met.
Even though Osito has been buying from Ture since day one of Sookoo (we were quite literally his first client, receiving Sookoo sales contract number one), Osito had never bought a washed coffee from Ture until last year. This is because since Sookoo’s inception, all production had been focused on naturally-processed coffees. Last year Ture produced washed coffee from only Bookkisa, a sub-Kebele Osito have been purchasing naturally processed coffees from for many years. This year, in addition to this stellar lot from Bookkisa, which is rife with all the flavors we adore Guji coffees for, Ture produced a lot from Tima, another Shakisso sub-Kebele.
