Colombia Narino Buesaco

In Narino coffee is everywhere, seemingly everyone grows it or is a part of the process. But in the micro-region of Buesaco, its a serious part of life. Every time you get in a jeep to drive to a farm there's coffee being dried on the side of the street or weighed down trucks bringing beans to the warehouse. Craft coffee is becoming a bigger deal in this area. With fantastic coffeeshops like, Amor Perfecto, offering region-specific brews and sourcing only Colombian beans you get the sense that the Buesaco coffee farmers are starting to take a lot of pride and attention to their production.

It's a delicious medium roast -a real gem, but I like to show it off by taking it a couple degrees lighter than other Colombia coffees. When we take it lighter, we taste a nice juicy coffee with lavender floral notes, lemon-lime acidity, raspberry, lemongrass, plum, lots of complexity. If you want a dark roast Colombia, you are probably better off buying a less expensive bean, but if you accidentally take this one dark, it can handle it, with slight hints of fruit sweetness beneath the roastiness.

US arrival October 2024