
Variety and process:
Castillo – natural/anaerobic;
Castillo-washed;
Robusta – washed
Country: Colombia & Timor
Altitude: 1850-2000 masl
Roast Level: Medium + (dark-ish)
TASTE
We taste a bit of nutmeg, strawberry (from the anaerobic beans), honey, malt, pipe tobacco, dark chocolate
Sweetness +++ Acidity + Body +++
THE FARM AND PRODUCER
Three coffee form this beautiful blend:
1. Dark Roast: We like this a lot: Biodiversity is a heritage for humanity.
This is the philosophy of coffee growers in south Santander, Colombia. This is a community coffee in a way. From the community of Curiti and San Gil and especially with the Wandurraga Family owners of four farms and one of the Vasquez Brothers farms, where all this coffee comes from. This is mostly a small family business and supports the work of women producers included in this beautiful community.
2. El Poema: Sebastian and his mom bought the farm together in 2016. They started to produce Natural and Honey coffees. They now have a micro-lot producing our natural anaerobic coffee that gives Anna & Rufous its fruity, exquisite taste and texture.
3. Finding an organic robusta was HARD!
TIMOR ORGANIC WASHED ROBUSTA coffee is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT), which has more than 20,000 members who live in the Ainaro, Ermera and Lequisa districts of East Timor. Coffee cultivation on East Timor was originally established over 400 years ago by Portuguese colonists but leaf rust destroyed all production until a new coffee varietal called Híbrido de Timor was introduced in the 1900s. Today, the average small producer cultivates coffee on less than one hectare of land. CCT was established in 1994 with the help of the USDA and the NCBA (National Cooperative Business Association) to help small producers market their coffee internationally. Through a free healthcare initiative, CCT has funded the operation of seven rural clinics, three mobile clinic teams and eleven community healthcare teams that have treated more than two million patients since 2001
