Brew Guide:
Best Brewed with: Filter
Lightest Roaster Influence:
A faster roast than Encanto, this Gesha develops more evenly. We're trialling a profile that really emphasises the peachy, creamy profile we find in this coffee at a light roaster influence.
Best rested for: 3-4 weeks
For Filter: We’re loving 62g/L & 96°C
For Espresso: 18g, 44g, 30-34s
We’re tasting: Sweet elderflower and ripe peach aromatics. In the cup - really creamy texture with a slight lactic tang, ripe peach acidity, dried apricot, verbena tea lead a complex hot cup. As it cools, the vanilla sweetness of crème anglaise & a soft tropicality like lychee juice
Traceability:
Country of Origin: |
Colombia |
Region: |
El Portal, Palestina, Huila |
Farm: |
Finca La Florida |
Producer: |
Marisela Sánchez |
Variety: |
Gesha |
Elevation: |
1650 MASL |
Process: |
Anoxic Washed: Picking very ripe to overripe cherries, with a 72hr held-in cherry dry fermentation. Cherries then pulped, and the parchment is anoxically fermented in a sealed container for 48hrs before washing. Dried slowly in parabolic driers over 15 days. |
Import Partner: |
LaReb |
The Story
LaReb - La Real Expedición Botánica - are a radical producer-owned export co-operative/movement. Their goal is to develop de-colonised supply chains and operate outside the typical multinational pathways of coffee, and it’s a mission that’s really resonated with us. By pooling together collective knowledge, financing, quality, export and import, LaReb members are able to define their own terms of engagement. It’s genuinely so refreshing to work with Herbert and the team, and we know we’ll only to continue to grow our purchasing relationship over the years.
This is our second year of purchasing from LaReb, with this season we've expanded our purchasing to 2 additional members of the group. The Sánchez family are core members of the co-operative - Marisela, Rigoberto, Durley, and their relations are all frequent guests on some amazing roaster’s offer sheets, but it’s Marisela’s work we have chosen to showcase this season. and our third release (having purchased 2 separate lots) is from Marisela.
The Sánchez family have a small “estate” in El Portal, Palestina. This land was granted to Marisela’s parents by the Colombian government in the 1950s, and they have been growing coffee in this area for the duration. Located in Huila, this region is world renowned for the excellent coffee that it produces.
With the passing of the land to the second generation - the family have split the estate into smaller plots, each owned and managed by Marisela’s siblings and wider family, with the main processing and drying station situated at Marisela’s house.
Marisela’s parents have deep connection to the community - her father Orlando had 2 terms as Mayor of Palestina around the turn of the millennium. As Marisela is approaching retirement age, we learned from Herbert that this year was her last year producing Rosado - she has transferred the plot this coffee was grown on to her nephew Yoiner, instead deciding to focus both on the community work she does, and for her coffee production lower yield, high value varieties; one of which we're showcasing with this Gesha lot.
The pooling of processing and quality knowledge that is key to LaReb’s on mission shows in lots like these. Well orchestrated extended fermentation steps producing very fruit-forward characteristics in the cup, without any trace of acetic-acid/funk - clean washed vibes, but with the volume turned up
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