YEMEN MAGHRIB: Yemenia CM Honey

Our first ever honey-processed coffee from Yemen! Maghrib is a beautiful Yemenia varietal, produced with a carbonic maceration honey process by Qima Coffee in Maghirib Ans, Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. 

This competition series offering is highly complex, exhibiting floral, tea-like and fruit-forward characteristics.

Tasting Notes: Cotton Candy, Pink Berry, Apricot, Orange Blossom

Cup Score: 90.25

This coffee is produced by Qima Coffee, which is focused on creating sustainable economic development opportunities for Yemeni Coffee Farmers. Their efforts help Yemeni Coffee Farmers come one step closer to overcoming the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. They do this by conducting studies and highlighting key findings that help farmers squeeze out maximum potential from coffee production.

ABOUT THE YEMENIA VARIETAL

Yemenia is a new mother population within the species of Coffea arabica that is found exclusively in Yemen, and represents an ocean of unexplored genetics and future varieties that have the potential to reshape the world of arabica for centuries to come.

To assess the cup quality of Yemen, Qima Coffee, in collaboration with the Alliance for Coffee Excellence, put together an independent jury panel of 35 cuppers from 24 leading global coffee companies across 14 countries. The cup quality was found to be exceptional and the coffees were ranked as amongst the highest in the world.  

ABOUT QIMA COFFEE

Initially sourcing from 30 farmers in one small community In Yemen, today Qima works with over 2,600 farmers across 53 communities throughout Yemen’s coffee lands. Operating directly at farm-level and working exclusively with fresh cherries, Qima Coffee is Yemen’s only fully integrated specialty coffee operator and the country’s largest specialty exporter.

It is a well-known fact that 98+% of the world’s cultivated varieties can be traced back to Yemen. Yet despite this fact, there has been practically no work carried out to explore Yemen’s genetic landscape. Since its establishment, Qima Coffee has been carrying out extensive research to develop a better understanding of Yemen’s genetics. 

Their findings have shown that Yemen contains the entire world’s spectrum of cultivated coffees. They also discovered a pure arabica mother population that represents a new ocean of genetics with untapped potential to transform the genetic landscape of Coffea arabica.

ARTWORK

The original artwork on the coffee bag was created by Hamza Abdulbasit (@virtualhamza).