Colombian Premium Huila San Agustin Los Naranjos

Description

This particular lot comes from a group of 13 producers organized around an association called Terra Coffee SAS, and export company called Mastercol, which provides crucial logistical support for things like warehousing and milling coffee for export to the international market. Each producer manages their own farm averaging just a few acres in size. Small enough for each producer to individually process the harvest with their own micro-mill, which allows for meticulous care in cherry selection, depulping, fermenting, and drying the coffee. Mastercol ensures traceability and quality control throughout the post-harvest process.

Tasting Notes: A wonderful classic example of Huila coffee. Highly rated and tasty from light to dark. Lighter roasting will have some acidity and soft fruit tones, not super lemony, reminiscent of green apple with a bit of sweet nutty and chocolaty balance. Medium roasts are a bit less acidic and fruity, brings forth a thicker body and more pronounced buttery textured nutty and chocolaty tones, smooth and sweet edged. Dark roast get real thick and creamy but turn semi sweet. If taken into 2nd crack gets a little smoky but the more roasty aspects compliment the cup.

Roasting Notes: Easy to roast, beautiful large screen of coffee. We liked it best in the light to medium ballpark but classic Colombian fans will likely want to go medium to dark. If the cup is a little sharp upon first brew, give it a couple days to mellow, setup really brings forth the more buttery texture and soft edges Huila coffee is known for.

El Macizo Colombiano is the geographic breakpoint where the Andes mountain range splits into three distinct ranges and forms the water source for five of the most important rivers in Colombia. In english, Macizo means “solid’’ or “massive” and that is exactly what we have come to expect of Royal’s annual supply from the municipality San Agustin in the department of Huila. The town of San Agustin is quaint, and the surrounding countryside is lush green year-round. There is even a UNESCO world heritage site to mark the largest collection of pre-columbian megalithic sculptures in South America.