Feb-Mar: New Beans
This Autumn we’re starting something new and exciting. We feel that it’s another step forward in our quest to source coffee more directly.
We have two great coffees brought directly from Brazil and Colombia by our supplier. Both are long-term projects which are seeing a difference made in the lives of the coffee farmers through linking them with buyers like us.
Furthermore, we’re buying HEAPS of them, so the next seasonal blend will cover Autumn and Winter (5-6 months’ worth).
There’s Brazil Fazenda Laranjal, and Colombia Asociación Los Naranjos – both awesome coffees in their own right – which will form the backbone of our Autumn-Winter Blend.
We’re also excited that announce that Thailand La Mai 2012 crop (fresh from the villages!) will be reappearing in the blend once it arrives in March.
Brazil Fazenda Laranjal:
Fazenda Laranjal is near the town of Poços de Caldas in the South of Minas Gerais state. As I’ve said before, a lot of our favourite coffees from Brazil come from this area!
Our supplier has been working closely with this large farm and selected some excellent lots to send to Australia.
These are all natural-process beans of the Yellow Bourbón variety (I’d love to know what flavour differences there are between yellow and red ripening beans!) grown at around 1250m asl, which is a very respectable altitude for Brazil.
MAP: you can zoom right in to see the landscape of the area.
Colombia Asociación Los Naranjos de San Agustin:
San Agustin is in the renowned coffee growing region of Huila in the South of Colombia. This association started in 2001 and now has around 50 families involved.
Colombia has two harvests per year – one large, one small. In the main harvest, members from this association have enough coffee to sell as microlots, and one member – Arnulfo Leguizamo – came 1st in Colombia’s Cup of Excellence in 2011 with his coffee!
This coffee is from the mitaca (small harvest) and comprises some of the best coffees from throughout the association. It was all washed and dried on the individual farms at 1350-1900m asl.
MAP: you can zoom right in to see the landscape of the area.
Our supplier (Cafe Imports) was kind enough to let us share this video of their most recent visit to San Agustin:
You can expect detailed profiles on both these coffees in the next few weeks!
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