COLOMBIA La Claudina LOT#6, Anaerobic Washed, 250g

Origin: Columbia
Farm/Producer: Juan Saldarriaga
Region: Bolivar, Antioquia
Altitude: 1400-1800 m
Variety: Castillo
Processing: Anaerobic Washed
Crop: 2021
Cupping notes: berries, grapes, dried figs, maple syrup

La Claudina is a farm with altitudes from 1400 to 1600m, in Bolivar, Antioquia. It's about 18 hectares which are planted with coffee of different varieties.This lot is a mix of Castillo and Variedad Colombia from the higher altitudes and it’s a fully washed coffee. The coffees are picked and sorted before they are pulped and dry fermented for 32 hours, with intermediate rinse in clean water, and dried on raised beds under shade for 18 days.

Juan Saldarriaga is a young producer that took over the family's farms in 2012 and started to plant several different and new cultivars, everything from unusual Castillos, Caturras and Tabi’s to Bourbon, Geisha and SL28’s among others. So far it’s about figuring out how they all perform in the environment, and then increase production over time. Since we started to cooperate, he has built different concepts of drying facilities, changed the processing and started to manage a few other farms in the area too. We are specially surprised by the effect the improved drying has on his coffees. He is drying a lot of our washed coffees under shade, and the naturals in a specially designed mechanical "cold dryer".

This lot reveals a special aromatic profile, with notes of berries and grapes, sweetened by a scent of maple syrup.