Finca La Concepción - Colombia

In the cup

We get a sweet profile of cherries and berries. We taste sweet cherry, blackberry and raspberry candy. The coffee has a tangerine acidity and a sweet finish.

About The Producer

Finca La Concepción has been in the family for generations and the house that sits on the property is over 100 years old, with some of the original construction still intact! Seventy hectares, with 14 in coffee, is an extremely large farm for a producer in Nariño. We are usually a bit hesitant to work with farmers of this size because their focus is more on quantity instead of quality. This, however, is not the case with Ana Lucia. She was driven and committed to transitioning from the commercial market to the specialty market. She worked tirelessly to implement new recipes and new tools, like a parabolic dryer, that allowed her to produce higher quality harvests for the specialty market.

Processing

This lot undergoes a double fermentation, first in cherry and then de-pulped and fermented for additional hours (mixing daily pickings). Upon washing, the coffee is dried in a parabolic dryer for between 15-20 days depending on the weather conditions until it reaches 10-11% humidity.

Variety

Caturra is a natural mutation of the Bourbon variety. It was discovered on a plantation in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil sometime between 1915 and 1918. For decades, it was one of the most economically important coffees in Central America, to the extent that it was often used (and sometimes still is) as a “benchmark” against which new cultivars are tested. In Colombia, Caturra was thought to represent nearly half of the country’s production until a government-sponsored program beginning in 2008 incentivized renovation of over three billion coffee trees with the leaf-rust-resistant Castillo variety (which has Caturra parentage).

Transparency

We Paid

$14.52 USD/KG

Roasted Costs

$18.69 USD/KG