Colombian Finca La Laguna Reserva

Description

REDCURRANT ~ VANILLA ~ CACAO NIB

• SCA 87.5
•  TYPICA & TABI
• WASHED PROCESS
• SINGLE ORIGIN
• 100% ARABICA
• 1700-1850M

A particularly smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Notes of eedcurrant, vanilla and cacao nib.

The Farm

The team at CENCOIC Co-Operative have always been incredible to work with. Founded with a link to CRIC, the local community police force in the Cauca Department in the south of Colombia, they’re committed to improving the safety and prosperity of the area after years of guerilla fighting created by the international drug trade.

La Laguna is a collection of twelve families and their individual farms, called collectively the ‘Manantial Association’. Each family looks after their own smallholder farm, including picking, pulping and drying, before grouping together the entire harvest into the Laguna we know and love.

Unlike other farms in the surrounding areas, Laguna is grown almost entirely under shade. Farmers are also strongly encouraged to produce their own fertiliser from natural materials.

The varietals are typical of Colombia as a whole, except for the very special F6 – this is created by selectively breeding the absolute best and biggest Castillo cherries at their peak of six years, for six generations. All coffee is washed, fermented and dried by each farmer, with generally an 18-hour fermentation stage dependent on heat, and then dried for around 15-25 days. We feel very lucky to work so closely with not just an outstanding farm, but a brilliant cause, too.

Please note:

• All our coffee beans are heat sealed at the time of roasting. If ordering ground coffee, in order to freshly grind the coffee beans to your requirements, the first seal will be broken on the top of the bag at the time of grinding, the zip-lock seal will be closed before dispatch. This does not apply to unground beans.
• If you are placing a back-order of this item, coffee may take up to 3 additional days prior to dispatch/drop-off of your order