Our Coffee
On offer at present we have three distinct coffees from different farms in Quinchia, Risaralda, including our own family farm, Finca Las Cruces. Additionally, we are bringing to the UK coffee from our friends and neighbours the Sanchez family, who own Finca La Merced, and the local co-operative of small farmers in the area, APECAFEQ. Check out the details below then get in touch if you’d like samples.
Finca Las Cruces, our family farm, is located just outside the small town of Quinchia and has been in the family for 70 years. Our castilla beans are fermented for 30 hours and then washed before drying, to produce a lovely cup with sweet, floral, chocolate and citric tasting notes. SCA score: 85.5
Further down the western slope of the central cordillera of the Andes, Finca Merced has been in the Sanchez family for many years. Now run by Carlos Sanchez and his sisters Consuelo and Lucidia, the farm produces coffee with flavours of apple, red berries and brown sugar.
SCA score: 84.5
The Asociacion de Pequeños Cafeteros de Quinchia is a cooperative founded by 32 small coffee farmers in 1994. Profits are allocated to the improvement of agricultural practices and other social initiatives. We are delighted to be their sole distributors in the UK
TRACEABILITY
Our coffees are grown on identified small plots of land with exceptional qualities. We know when and where all our coffees are picked, and all the details of processing, storage and its journey from the Andes to the Roaster.
ETHICAL
We know the balance of being kind to the land, we and all of our fellow producers have adopted organic ways of farming.
We also know how important is the welfare of our workers, so we and our partners pay fair wages and invest in the education of our workers and their families.
OUR PROCESS
On the farms we work with all the cherries are selectively picked by hand. During the processing all beans are floated and manually sorted in fresh spring water. After processing the beans are sun-dried in traditional marquesinas
