10/09/2026
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Yemen Mocca – Ansi – Natural Processed
This is a smallholder lot of Ansi coffee from Yemen, which is gathered, milled and exported by Pearl of Tehama. The export house is run by Fatoum Muslot, one of the first Yemeni women to build a coffee export business under her own name. She runs it as a continuation of her father Ali Hiba Muslot’s coffee trade, and a large part of the company’s work is getting farms access to a market.
Yemeni coffee has been sold under regional names for centuries, and Ansi is one of the oldest names known. It points at the Anis growing country in Dhamar Governorate, in the central highlands, where the Anis and Ans districts sit on mountain slopes running down toward the western escarpment. Holdings here are small and family held, worked on stone terraces cut into ground far too steep to farm any other way, a practice that goes back hundreds of years in this part of the country.
There is no clean varietal name on a lot like this. It is Arabica of Yemeni heirloom stock. The local names growers use, Udaini, Tufahi, Dawairi and Jaadi, describe tradition, leaf and cherry shape more than they describe genetics: trees carrying the same name in two different valleys often turn out not to be the same plant, and where a tree grows is a better guide to what it actually is than what it gets called. Heirloom is the accurate label, not a marketing shrug.
Processing is natural, the way essentially all Yemeni coffee is done. Cherry is picked ripe, then dried whole in the sun on rooftops and raised beds until the fruit goes dry and brittle around the seed. This is the oldest continuous natural processing tradition anywhere, and it is not the tidy, uniform raised bed natural you get from a modern Latin American mill. Drying happens in thin, dry mountain air, in batches sized to a single household, and the lot in front of you is the sum of a great many of those small dryings. That is where the character comes from.
Roughly 90,000 farmers still grow coffee in Yemen, and export has been squeezed for years by conflict and by the cost and difficulty of moving anything through the country’s roads and ports, which is a big part of why Yemen sits where it does on price. Pearl of Tehama has kept buying, sorting and shipping straight through it. This is a 2025/26 harvest lot, arriving at Burman Coffee Traders in 32 kilo GrainPro lined bags.
This Yemen Ansi roasted light brings a honey, soft floral gently fruited edge. Medium roasts are the sweet spot with caramel, cocoa notes and a creamy syrupy body. Dark roasts turns this into a low acid cup with molasses, date and bittersweet chocolate notes. This is a classic old world natural.
Arrival Date: 09/01/2026
Origin: Hajjah Governorate
Lot #: 2022
Processing Method: Full natural and dried on rooftops
