Ethiopia Bench Maji
WashedLight72Cherry's Index
Cup profile
apricot · jasmine · melon
- Fruit
- Floral
- Origin
- Bench Maji, ET
- Producer
- Gesha Village
- Farm / Co-op
- Gesha Karmach Farm
- Process
- Washed
- Altitude
- 1900–2100 m
- Varietals
- geisha
- Harvest
- 2025
- Weight
- 363g
- Bag price
- $25.00
- Price / oz
- $1.95/oz
- Brew
- —
from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated
Price and availability set by the roaster.
Batch roasted weekly
Roasted on a scheduled weekly rhythm. Very fresh if you order right after a roast day; less so near the end of the cycle.
“Roast days are Monday - Thursday. All orders are roasted and shipped on the next roast day after your order is placed” source ↗
Cherrybook last checked this listing today.
Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
72
Noted
Preliminary
Confidence33% coverage / 3 of 7 signals
Score is partially shrunk toward a neutral 50 — read directionally until more source families land.
How confidence affects the score
Coverage measures signal availability, not cup quality. Missing sources are dropped, remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 18% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings
- 82/ 55% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 80/ 30% weightYouTube reviewsSentiment from third-party YouTube reviewer mentions
- 80/ 15% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Bonuses applied
- +-4Stale-stock demotionThis lot has been listed in stock for an extended time; specialty coffee freshness degrades over weeks
Renormalized base 81.1 shrunk to 75.7 at 83% confidence + bonuses = 72.
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 5
- Body
- 2
- Sweetness
- 4
- Balance
- 4
- Clean
- 5
Flavor wheelestimated
Comps & alternatives
Tasting flight
Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
Brew a set side-by-side. Cherry varies the picks along axes that pair with this lot; origin, process, roast, or producer; so you learn the difference, not just drink four good cups.
Reference · About the varietal & origin
About Roseline Coffee
Community reputation · Reddit
Well-regarded· sentiment 82/100
Roseline Coffee is recognized by enthusiasts as a high-quality specialty roaster, frequently grouped alongside respected peers like Heart, Sweet Bloom, and George Howell. They are appreciated for clean, well-crafted light-to-medium roasts, with specific praise noted for their customer service and solid single-origin offerings like Ethiopian and Peruvian coffees.
light to medium roastsgreat customer servicesingle origin offeringsspecialty coffee favorite
Threads cited (7)
- r/Coffee · ↑ · I prefer light to medium roast beans. But with many roasters, I can't make sense of the de
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Shoutout to the great customer service at Roseline!
- r/pourover · ↑ · Recommendations for roasters specializing in the more developed end of light?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · East Coast Cafes
- r/roasting · ↑ · Oh lawdy help me! I'm hooked!
- r/pourover · ↑ · Today's Coffee - Ethiopian Reko from Roseline
- r/pourover · ↑ · Today's Coffee - Washed Peruvian Norma Veronica from Roseline
On YouTube
1 video · 17k combined views
Coverage from Online Barista Training features a facility tour and discussion with Marty Lopes of Roseline Coffee in Portland, Oregon. The review highlights their deliberate small batch roasting approach. They focus heavily on single origin offerings that showcase unique variety and origin characteristics.
Portland Oregon roasterSmall batch approachSingle origin focusUnique bean characteristics
Coverage from others