YEMEN - Wadi Alsaail

An extraordinary Yemeni coffee with an intensely aromatic, elegant and deeply floral cup

THE BEAN

CUPPING NOTES Floral, Jasmine, Rose

PROCESS Natural Anaerobic

VARIETY Ja'adi

PRODUCER Wadi Alsaail

REGION East Harraz

ALTITUDE 2300m

SCA POINTS 90

CROP 2025

THE FARMER BEHIND

This truly phenomenal coffee with 90 SCA points is available in only very small quantities. It is extremely rare, from the motherland of coffee, where war and drought have been raging for years. Difficult conditions for growing coffee. Yemen Journey and Warfair, a Danish organization that supports entrepreneurs in war zones, managed to get their hands on this coffee.

The coffee is grown organically and the cherries are handpicked and sundried. The importer provides the farmers with ongoing support enabling them to increase quality and yield in their production. Hulling, hand sorting and grading are of the highest standards. Full transparency is ensured to buyers in the methods of cultivation, drying and processing, as well as the price the farmer receives for his crop.

Yemeni coffee has been world famous since the 1700th century, where the country was the first to launch coffee export through its port of Mocha. Coffee quickly became popular in Europe and coffee houses started popping up, where the mysterious drink from Yemen was enjoyed. For many years the word Mocha was synonymous with coffee from Yemen.

Yemeni coffee today is grown in the same ways as in the 1700th century when coffee export first began. The coffee is grown in small quantities on mountain terraces and in narrow mountain valleys, where natural methods in cultivation and drying at high altitude produce small beans with unique floral and fruity flavors.
As coffee growing in Yemen has never undergone homogenization original strains of the Arabica plant has evolved in remote pockets of the mountain highlands, where local varieties are among the oldest genotypes still grown in the world. 

High quality paired with high production costs associated with water scarcity, small scale farming and low production yields, leaves Yemeni coffee as one of the most expensive in the world. However, giving farmers in Yemen an opportunity to export their unique product also allows them to make a living. The majority of the production cost goes directly to the farmer.