June Spotlight Coffee - Foxfire Blend

Welcome to the June 2025 edition of For The Love of Coffee! A blog about all things coffee, exclusively for the employees of Vienna Coffee.

Our June Spotlight Coffee (and new Seasonal Blend), beginning June 1st, will be Foxfire Blend! This new Foxfire blend is not the same blend as our Foxfire Espresso from a few years ago, which won a Golden Bean award in 2022 in the Espresso category. This newly-imagined blend exclusively features coffees from the Daye Bensa Farm in the heart of Shantawene Village, in Sidama Bensa, Ethiopia.

Gatta Honey (last month’s Spotlight) is 30% of the new blend and is prepared using a unique method called “Honey Process”. The beans are de-pulped from the fruit and, instead of being washed, are immediately moved outside to raised beds to dry with all the sticky mucilage (fruit residue) remaining on the coffee. This gives a unique variation to the two common processing methods (washed and natural), typically resulting in a sweeter, more complex flavor profile.

Depulped coffee beans ready to go straight to the drying beds.

Daye Bensa Washed Shantawene make up the lion’s share of the blend at 70%. This coffee uses the most common processing method of “washing” the coffee to remove all the fruity mucilage before going to the drying beds.

Foxfire Summer Blend features tasting notes of Honeysuckle, Peach, and Melon. It has a bright acidity, and a light body.

4 Oz Barista samples will be coming soon!

It’s a GREAT day for coffee!

Matt