Colombia - Finca El Paraiso

PEACH, APRICOT, MILK TEA

WHERE AND WHO

Finca El Paraiso is a farm located in the region of Piendamo, Cauca. His founder and owner, Diego Bermùdez has dedicated the last 13 years in growing coffees and also in gaining a deep knowledge about the scienze behind a good cup. Diego and his family were pioneers in studing and processing the coffee cherries with different fementation. Nowadays they represent one of the best fermenting station of the whole Colombia. 

FROM THE CHERRY TO THE BEAN

The process of this profile begins with the proper harvesting of the coffee cherries, at an optimum point of ripeness. Then the coffee cherries are disinfected with ozone, and they are transferred to the cherry fermentation tanks, in which an anaerobic fermentation process is carried out for 72 hours submerged in water and Lactobacillus in milk culture medium. Then the coffee is pulped and mixed with the leachates collecting in the cherry fermentation, to put increase the level of precursors in the seed.

ABOUT THE VARIETY

CASTILLO

Named by his breeder Jamie Castillo, this variety has been develop as an upgrade of the Colombia variety.

Is quite more resiliable to the roya ill an this is why it becomes easly the most common variety in Colombia. This variety is also smaller in size compared to Colombia an it helps to grows more plant per ha.