Maura Basante

Origin

• 🇨🇴 Colombia· Nariño

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  85
• Clean
  55
• Sweet
  25

***We ship mail orders on Tuesday and Thursday and offer free shipping over $50. Enter code "freeship" at check out*** ***"Pick up" orders will be filled as soon as possible. Y o u will be notified by email when it is ready to be picked up . **** COUNTRY: Colombia DEPARTMENT: Narino MUNICIPALITY: Ancuya VEREDA: Indo Centro VARIETAL: CastilloCastilloColombia's leaf-rust-resistant variety, bred by Cenicafé from Caturra and Timor hybrid. Long dismissed by purists, it now wins competitions when grown and processed well. ELEVATION: 2100 masl PROCESSING: Fully washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. FERMENTATION TIME: 12 hours DRYING TIME: 8 days WE TASTE: Red Apple, Blackberry, Sweet Grapefruit Maura's coffee expresses deeply sweet blackberry and red apple with a chocolate finish. It is a very pleasing cup profile that will keep you coming back for more. During our last trip to visit her, we were able to give her a moisture meter to help her more accurately determine when the coffee is done drying and ready to bring to the collection point. If a coffee is too wet or too dry, it can affect the final quality, so this has helped Maura assure quality! We are very happy with the results this year. When we first began working with Maura, she was pulping the coffee by hand, which takes a long time and is physically taxing. It was also making it difficult for her to increase her capacity, so we raised money in our cafe to help her purchase a gas-powered pulper, and now her capacity is double! A great story of how relational coffee buying can truly change the lives of people on so many levels. Thank you for being part of the story.