Organic Columbia

 

Beans: Organic Colombia
(COLOMBIA SIERARA NEVADA POINT)
Roasting degree: City
Roaster: Coffee-ya Hot
Area of production: Cincinati Farm, The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Columbia
Owner: Italo Cianci Lozano
Grade: SUP
Screen: N/A
Altitude: 1300m～1350m
Defects: N/A
Processing: Fully washed, sun-dry (90%)
Variety: tipica
Yr of cultivation: 2009/2010
OCIA,ICS, organic JAS certified



High percentage of Pea berries make taste different.


【Impression】
Medium body, mild and smooth with a touch of bitterness as a top note.  Well balanced bitterness and acidity with light sweetness blended in, black berry or dried raisin like fragrance as dripped, slightly sweet, nutty and chocolate like flavor.   Aromaful and slightly erathy aftertaste with clear impression.

It might not make much difference with coffee taste...  However, I feel lucky when there "pea berry" beans are mixed.  "Organic" labeled whole coffee beans often have high percentage of Pea-berries mixed, I think, compared with conventional prodacts. 

Columbia Spremo

Name: Columbia Spremo
Roaster: Coffee Roaster Grancino
Roast degree: Medium

【Impression】
Little bitter, charcoal bitterness wins over beans sweetness and bitterness, but clear after taste.
Columbia Spremo is basic or standard selection for coffee shops or roasters, which is often used as a core for house blend.  This beans is unique for mild, moderate, and well harmonized flavor.
Grancino's Columbia stays mild and full flavored as it said on their web, but is not well matured and developped fully enough to satisfy the image of "Columbia" taste.

However, their roasting method is very much experimentally and theoretically analyzed, it might be worth trying again someday.
 




 

El Porvenir

Beans: El Porvenir
Roaster: Doi Coffee
Roasting degree: Full City
Estate: Finca la El Porvenir
Area: La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Columbia 
Varieties: Typica, Catura, Castillo
Altitude: 1,600～1,700m
Processing: Natural, Sun-dried
RA Certified


【Impression】
Medium body but rich in flavor, well polished clear texture, citrus aroma.  Light acidity mixed into well established body of full scaled fruity sweetness and light bitterness.  Mild and light impression but stays as highly harmonized short and clear aftertaste.

【About El Porvenir Estate】  El Porvenir is one of the oldest estates located in Cundinamarca, Columbia.  The estates holds a strong conviction in traditional farming, rather called Philosophy; to minimize mechanization, most of farming tasks are managed manually.  They have earned Rain forest alliance certification as a result of their efforts on organic and traditional way of farming to protect environment.

Narino El Tambo

Beans: Narino El Tambo
Roasting Level: city
Roaster: Nama-mame Hompo
Area of Production: El Tambo,  Nariño Department, Colombia.
Grade: Excels
Screen: 14～16
Altitude:1,500～1,950m
Defects: N/A
Processing: Fully-washed,
Variety: Caturra, Varieda
Yr of cultivation: 2010

【Roaster's notes】
In COE Columbia 2010, 17 out of 21awarded farms were from Nariño area.  Currentry, they are forcuses on Organic certification.

size variations & Pea Berries

【Impression】

Medium body, velours like texture.  Dried apricots flavor, with light acidity on base of dark, deep fruity sweetness.  Sweetness of fully-ripened apricots and figs, a touch of soothing bitterness and sourness, long lasting sweetness and bitterness as aftertaste.  A thick "sweetness" layer sandwiched between thin layers of sweetness and sourness, just like a "tram-stopper", to create well-balanced flavor.  

This cup may create wonderful nutty flavor with a little bit of cream.  Too rich for morning cup: Prefer to have this in a Fall afternoon with favorite books.