Our farm. Our neighbours. Your coffee.
Sabor Coffee began with one family farm in the Colombian coffee region.
Finca Las Cruces in Quinchia, Risaralda has been in our family for more than 70 years. I grew up there, and now split my time between Colombia and London, spending time on the farm every year
Today, Sabor brings coffee from our own farm and from farmers we know personally in the surrounding region. We buy directly, pay good prices, build long-term relationships, and bring the coffee to the UK ourselves.
So we know our coffee all the way back to where it begins — the farm, the people and the place.
Great coffee. Real relationships. A connection that goes back generations.
Esnayder Cuartas
Founder, Sabor Coffee
Our Story
I moved to London in 1992, where I have lived ever since. In London I ran my own restaurant showcasing modern Latin American cuisine from 2004 to 2012, and I’ve been delivering high-end catering and events for many years. At the same time I have been managing the family coffee farm, Finca Las Cruces, with annual visits to check on progress and oversee changes.
My professional experience within the London restaurant scene, where the speciality coffee culture has blossomed, inspired me to modify how we run the family farm. We embraced changes to our working practices so that now all our processes, from cultivation through harvesting, processing to drying are entirely organic and sustainable.
As a family we believe that in life nothing has meaning unless you put passion into it. In our case our passion is for the production of an excellent quality coffee which showcases the flavour of this region. For many years we produced coffee to sell to the local coffee federation, but in 2021 we were really encouraged by the very high scores we were getting in sample tastings to bring our coffee more directly to the international market as a single origin denomination. We are now working on the fermentation process to improve the flavour even further.
Since 2021 we have been bringing coffee from Finca Las Cruces directly to the UK. More recently we have started to bring coffee from other farms in the area, carefully selected for the quality of their coffee and the integrity and sustainability of their farming practices. We work together to help maintain a thriving agricultural economy based on coffee in rural Colombia.
Esnayder Cuartas,
Familia Cuartas Alvarez
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