ETHIOPIA CHELCHELE JUSIU

Ephtah Specialty Coffee was founded in 2021 by Wubit Bekele. A Q-grader with experience in Ethiopia’s coffee industry, she built the company around quality and closer relationships with coffee-growing communities. Working across Ethiopia’s diverse coffee regions, Ephtah brings greater attention to the people behind each lot and the landscapes that shape their coffee.

Worka sits within the wider Yirgacheffe landscape in southern Ethiopia. Here coffee is part of everyday life, grown by smallholder farmers across the surrounding highlands. Generations of farming knowledge and the diversity of indigenous coffee varieties contribute to the region’s identity. Each harvest offers a glimpse into a place where coffee remains closely connected to its people and the land they cultivate.

This G1 natural lot is sourced through Ephtah. The cherries are dried intact before the beans are prepared for export, allowing the fruit and seed to develop together throughout the drying process. It is a traditional approach to Ethiopian coffee that places careful attention on harvest quality and post harvest handling. For us, Worka is more than a name of origin. It is an invitation to explore the people and practices behind a coffee that carries a small part of southern Ethiopia into the cup.