This is the decaf version of our Shoye Union Sidamo coffee. We sent it for custom decaffeination and it came back great! Let's decode the name first of all: "Shoye Union" is the specific cooperative mill where this coffee originates. A Union = a cooperative. FTO = Fair Trade and Organic certified. Most importantly under current Ethiopia laws, this means the lot can be exported with the name of the mill intact. WP is Water Process Decaf, a non-chemical method using water filtration. Originally this is a Dry Process, DP special selection involves harvesting ripe cherry, promptly screen-drying on raised beds, and extra steps in sorting the coffee after it is hulled. This differs from other dry-process Ethiopia coffees, which are often assembled at the tail-ends of the crop, indiscriminately picked, and consolidated later (mixing good coffee with bad). The result is that this coffee has less distraction in terms of earthy, hidey or musty flavors, common in average DP Sidamo coffees. On the contrary, this lot from Shoye is a wonderful cup that we enjoyed immensely as a non-decaf selection and thought it would be very interesting as a decaf as well. We weren't expecting it to come back the same exactly, and there is a flavor shift for sure. If anything it cups a bit more like a wet-process Ethiopia, with cleaner bright fruit notes.