Colombia El Estoraque Honey

Origin

• 🇨🇴 Colombia

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40
• Bright
  30
• Sweet
  25
• Clean
  20

Yeison Libardo López comes from a long line of coffee growers. He is continuing the legacy of the generations before him on his farm, El Estoraque, in the town of Buesaco, Nariño. Perched atop a ridge of the Colombian Andes in the storied state of Nariño, Buesaco is a specialty coffee hub that is renowned for its quality. The combination of high altitude (averaging 2,000 meters), volcanic soils, and a climate of warm days, cool nights, and distinct rainy and dry seasons, creates the ideal conditions for growing coffee. With the right knowledge and infrastructure, coffee producers like Don Yeison can capitalize on these naturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. conditions, preparing lots that highlight the best of what Buesaco's terroirTerroirBorrowed from wine: the way a place — soil, altitude, climate, even neighboring crops — expresses itself in the cup, independent of variety and process. has to offer. Diverging from the tradition of 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. coffees, this lot is a honey processHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural.. After the ripe cherries were harvested, the coffee was de-pulped just enough to remove the skin while still leaving some of the pulpy fruit in tact. From there, the coffee was fermented anaerobically for an extended period of time, and washed just once before being transferred to covered, raised drying beds. The extended fermentation combined with the presence of the fruit pulp imparts a tangy sweetness to the coffee while still presenting a cup with balance and clarity.