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Colombia Narino Organic - Ecoterra​(Washed Processed)
(Photo Credit: hatillocoffee.com)
​(Pictured: Jose Ignacio Perez and his “El Jardin” farm )

Tasting Notes

  • Cherry pie, apple tart, grape, macadamia nut

Processing

  • ​Washed Processed

Elevation

  • 1,850 - 2100 m

Cultivar

  • Rosario Castillo Varietal

About this Coffee

(From covoyacoffee.com)
  • The Nariño region sits on the coast of southern Colombia, just north of the border with Ecuador, where coffee grows in the shadow of the volcano Galeros. Although Galeros is an active volcano, that activity has mostly been ash and steam eruptions in recent times, contributing to the “youth” of the nutrient-rich soil. The region is beautiful but rugged and all the coffee farms are very small above 1,700 meters. This coffee comes from the smallholder members of the “Association of Coffee Producers Ecoterra.” Ecoterra is an organization with 117 producers from the municipalities of La Unión, San Pedro de Cartago, Arboleda and SanLorenzo. Their objective is to work with greater intensity in diversifying the different processes of production and processing of coffee.
  • As with many coffee origins, it is believed that coffee was first brought to Colombia by priests, arriving, perhaps, within a decade or two after coffee first came to the Americas via the Caribbean in the first half of the 17th century. It was likely a garden crop grown for local consumption and barter for decades. Unlike other coffee regions, we have the story of a priest named Francisco Romero, who could be called the father of commercial coffee cultivation in Colombia. The folkloric tale goes that in the early 1800’s, Father Francisco, hearing confessions in the north eastern town of Salazar de la Palmas, assigned planting coffee to his parishioners as penance for their sins. The Archbishop of Colombia heard about this and ordered all priests to adopt the practice. Commercial production of coffee expanded quickly, moving into regions where the growing conditions were ideal. 

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