Our featured coffee for February is a dense and complex washed coffee from women coffee producers who work with the Asprotimana group in the Huila department in Colombia. This coffee is not particularly balanced, with a low acidity and medium-high bitterness. The cup starts with notes of rich chocolate truffle and sweet peanut butter. In the middle of the cup, bitter grapefruit zest notes contribute a distinct citrus dimension. The finish is complex and long, with sweet chocolate and peanut butter notes melding with the citrus bitterness. This wonderful coffee tastes darker than its medium roast color and fits the profile typical of past Coffees of the Month that have become customer favorites.
Roast Color: Medium
Cupping Notes: Chocolate Truffle, Grapefruit Zest, Peanut Butter
About the coffee of the month: We feature a new coffee every month. This allows us to explore more of the world of coffee outside of our normal offerings. It is available this month only, while supplies last.
Story: Arrivals from Huila are always a special treat and even more so when they are fully traceable to a producer group of women. Programa Mujer Cafetera with Asociación De Productores Agrícolas De Timana (ASPROTIMANA) has been working directly with women producers to establish coffee production from farms owned and managed by women. With the support of Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA), this group of women have established their skills to process specialty coffee using their own micro-mills.
Cultivating coffee on just a few acres of land intercropped with shade trees, bananas, corn, and beans lends to careful post-harvest practices including hand sorting cherries before depulping, fermenting, washing, and drying the coffee using their own micro-mills. After processing, ASPROTIMANA works with an export company called San Miguel, a family owned company based in Huila that focuses on bringing traceable micro-lots to the international market. The partnership ensures traceability and quality control throughout the post harvest process and a mutual goal to improve the quality of life for coffee producers and their families through internationally marketing womens’ coffee to gain improved premiums.
