Francy Castillo - Colombia
This is our third year working with Francy. Her coffees are some of our favourites each year from Nariño. This Pink Bourbon & Caturra is sweet, sparkling and memorable and reminds us of juicy berries and fruit salad.
200G
Francy Castillo - Colombia
September Coffee Roastery
119 Iber Road
Unit 9
Ottawa ON K2S 1E7
Canada
- Variety: Pink Bourbon & Caturra
- Country: Colombia
- Region: Arboleda, Nariño
- Process: Natural
- Altitude: 2148 MASL
- Producer: Francy Castillo
- Farm: Finca El Ubérrimo
- Roast Level: Light
In the cup
We taste a profile that reminds us of juicy raspberries and blueberries with a fruit salad sweetness. This coffee is bright, sweet with a round body and a long sweet finish.
Funky
Experimental
About The Producer
Francy and her four sisters grew up helping their parents at the coffee farm, which inspired her to major in Agronomy to support and manage the family business. She completed her university degree through distance learning while working on her farm to pay for her studies. After graduating in 2019, she began working at the FNC as a Field Assistant around her hometown of Arboleda, Nariño. She also gained experience in sensory development by working at a private export lab in Buesaco. She said, "I became even more interested in coffee and day by day, I wanted to learn more about the beautiful world of coffee." At El Ubérrimo, farm tasks like planting, fertilization, and harvesting are done with the help of Francy's neighbours and family members. Production practices on the farm focus on using the least amount of chemicals to preserve the naturally occurring microbial life in the soil. This helps support the growth of healthy coffee plants.
Processing
Only fully ripe cherries with a rich wind-red colour are selected for harvest. These cherries have matured for about 25 days before picking. The harvested cherries are left in bags for a period of 70 hours. They are then floated to remove any defects, followed by a dry in-tank fermentation of 48-72 hours. This allows the cherries to further develop before drying. After fermentation, they are dried for 2 days on concrete before transitioning to raised beds for 20-25 days.
Variety
Pink Bourbon is a variety primarily grown in Huila, Colombia and while newer, it has quickly grown in popularity for its bright, sweet and aromatic profiles. It is now known to be an Ethiopian Landrace varietal. 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).
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