Juan Pablo Zapata

Origin

• 🇨🇴 Colombia

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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Chirosos are on the rise! And this lot from Finca La Mata De Guadua landed at the roastery just yesterday and is tasting great. We love this coffee for its peach, raspberry, and raisin flavors, with a hint of tropical fruit mélange in the finish. This coffee was processed using the "Cochadas" method: as cherries are harvested day by day, the just-harvested coffee gets a dded to the existing fermentation pile. The snowball effect results in a coffee with a wide range of flavors, some barely-fermented cherry flavor to some with 4-5 days of fermentation. After a final washing step, the coffee dried in a marquesina for 10-15 days. Producer Juan Pablo Zapata, along with his brother and father, farm their 20 hectare plot at 2100 meters. Many food crops grow on the farm, and Juan noticed his coffees thriving under shade from their banana trees, which he hopes to leverage moving forward. This is a new relationship between our vendor The Coffee Quest and the Zapata family, and this first coffee is a tremendous start! Process: 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. Region: Urrao, Colombia VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: Chiroso Make sure to check that the roast dateRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. you've selected is what you're looking for — if there is an "upcoming roast" for this coffee, the upcoming roast date is listed under the tasting notesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee. at the top of this product page. Please read our shipping info page!