San Sebastian - Colombia - Filter - Washed Coffee

TASTE NOTES
Chocolate, Stewed Cherry, Almond

VARIETAL
Caturra, Castillo

PROCESS
Washed

ALTITUDE
1900 masl

We tend to not change our Unit Fourteen as often as we have recently however we have had some delays with our coffees arriving from Honduras so for the next few weeks we have a stunning coffee from Nariño, grown by Jaime Andres Romero. Nariño is located in the far south-west of Colombia bordering Ecuador, coffee grows up to 2200 masl, often on the steep hillsides of tiny farms in very remote areas.

Jaime’s farm is in the Samaniego municipality of the Nariño department and he grows Castillo and Caturra varieties on his farm San Sebastian. Jamie is a member of Café Occidente Cooperative. Our importer Nordic Approach together with their export partner work with this cooperative to create quality programs that target certain areas for groups or producers within the cooperative. They pay quality premiums based on cup scores, above the daily coffee prices determined by the FNC (National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia).

In contrast to other regions in Colombia producers in Nariño face extremely dry conditions during the harvest time and humidity in the area can be quite low. These conditions together with really high altitudes affect the flavour profile making these coffees distinct from any other Colombian coffees.