Colombia Specialty Pollux
Country: Colombia- Region: Huilia
- Farm: Tierra Santa
- Owner: Don Segundo Noe Diaz & Don Efraian Gonzalez
- Altitude: 1.800 meters above sea level
- Species: Arabica
- Varietal: Geisha
- Processing: Washed
- Fermentation: Anaerobic
- Score SCA: 88
Finca Tierra Santa is located in the municipality of Cali, in the department of Huila. Mostly managed on a family level, the Finca is a green oasis, a land of natural beauty, unspoiled flora and fauna.
The commitment of the owners, Don Segundo Noe Diaz & Don Efraian Gonzalez, is to produce the highest quality coffee, offer a decent work environment and protect the surrounding environment.
The variety grown at an altitude of 1800 meters above sea level is the Geisha.
In the cup it has the typical profile of a Colombia Huila, characterized by an intense sweet and floral aroma, good body.
Cup Profile
Honey, white flowers and cyclamen.
Etiopia Yirgacheffe Gr 2
Country: Ethiopia- Region: Yirgacheffe
- Altitude: 1.800 meters above sea level
- Species: Arabica
- Varietal: Heirlooms
- Processing: Fully Washed, Sun-dried
- Score: 84,5
In the south of Ethiopia, about 400 km south of Adis Abeba, lies the home of Yirgacheffe coffees. The astonishing biodiversity in the local coffee plants has been preserved, resulting in unique, complex and sophisticated coffees which never cease to surprise.
More than 90% of the people in the region are involved in coffee business. Coffee is the dominant source of income for the majority of smallholder farmers, for whom coffee is everything: it sends their children to school, buys medication, and provides the livelihoods for families.
Cup Profile
Black currant, chocolate, floreal / jasmine like
Kenya Specialty Regulus Ama
Country: Kenya- Region: Kiambu
- Farm: Gifted
- Owner: Moses Kamura Nganga
- Altitude: 1.700 / 1.800 meters above sea level
- Species: Arabica
- Varietal: SL34, SL28
- Processing: Washed
- Fermentation: Anaerobic
- Score: 87,5
Moses Kamura Nganga owns three separate plots of land in the hills around his father’s farm. Each plot is around 1-2 acres and the terrain is extremely steep. The name Gifted was a result of amatutu (a minibus or similar vehicle used as a taxi) which he received from the father, he called that minibus Gifted so when his father gave hive him the farm he decided to use the same name Gifted for the farm.
The farm is 60km north of Nairobi along Ruiru Kiganjo road. Initially the farmer was delivering coffee to Kimaratia Factory, but he started pulping his own coffee around 2011 alongside his two brothers who also have farms in the same area.
Main flowering is January-February and fry crop flowering is October-November. The Coffee is pulped at the washing station at the family home, which is central to the three brother’s farms, and is then fermented overnight to breakdown the sugar before it is cleaned and washed in channels. Parchment is then spread out on raised drying tables.
Drying times depend on climate and ambient temperature, but the process can take up to three weeks. At night and during very hot periods, parchment is covered by shade cloth to avoid being affected by humidity and extreme heat.
Cup Profile
Yellow fruits, mandarin
Uganda Rwenzori
- Country: Uganda
- Region: Rwenzori
- Altitude: 1.000 meters above sea level
- Species: Arabica
- Varietal: SL14, SL28, Catimor
- Processing: Natural
- Score: 85,5
The magnificent Rwenzori Mountains, famously known as the “Mountains of the Moon”, stretch for 120 km along Western Uganda and are home to the Bazonko tribe. Bazonko farmers work manually, with the help of the whole family, and traditionally group together to process the cherries.
Many coffee farmers live high up on the slopes of Rwenzori mountain range, which culminates at more than 5.000 M.A.S.L. The higher the coffee grows, the more slowly it matures and the more complex the cup profiles are.
Cup Profile
Fresh Mango, yellow stone fruit, lively.