Cup Notes: Chocolate, good sweetness, red plum, caramel apple, clementine
Region: Nariño
Process: Washed
Variety: Castillo, Caturra, Colombia
Elevation: 6,000 ft
About this coffee
The Nariño region sits on the coast of southern Colombia, just north of the border with Ecuador, where coffee grows in the shadow of the volcano Galeros. Although Galeros is an active volcano, that activity has mostly been ash and steam eruptions in recent times, contributing to the “youth” of the nutrient-rich soil. The region is beautiful but rugged and all the coffee farms are very small above 1,700 meters. This coffee comes from the smallholder members of the “Association of Coffee Producers Ecoterra.” Ecoterra is an organization with 117 producers from the municipalities of La Unión, San Pedro de Cartago, Arboleda and San Lorenzo. Their objective is to work with greater intensity in diversifying the different processes of production and processing of coffee.