MEDIUM ROAST
 
Full body with a bright and juicy acidity. Nuanced and exotic notes of orange marmalade and guava.
 
From The Green Collection, a fully traceable Colombian focused coffee importers, comes an exceptional community coffee with contributions from several farms in the region. 
 
Tolima is one of the most isolated coffee producing regions, located in the Central Colombia Andes mountains of Tolima, nestling betweenthe vast Parques Nacionales Natural Nevado and the Parque Nacional Natural Cordillera De Los Pichachos Andes Mountain ranges. With limited access, other than through the town of Coyaima, mainly dirt road, with access subject to conditions. 12-hour road trip fromIbague the province capital. At these altitudes of 1650/2200 is where the real high-quality Specialties are found; the terra is enriched with volcanic soils, and many fresh mountains streams.
 
Regional Profiles: The coffees are rich in flavour, notes of red/yellow fruits, herbs, citric and lemon, deep in tense chocolate and panela, full bodied, and wonderfully balanced, excellent acidity, with an amazing after taste. Regional cupping is from 84 up 88+ Coffees are all grown the artisanal way, either fully washed or natural process, mainly double fermentation all are sun dried,hand-selecting the finest of the beans when ripe.
 
The Planadas area represents 48 coffee producing hamlets representing 6821 small farms ranging from .5 to 6 hectares, renown for producing some of Colombia’s finest Specialty Micro-lot coffees, are now gaining a reputationfor their higher quality commercial community coffees.