Colombia Narino La Arboleda

Colombian farmers are really starting to pay attention to quality and discovering that higher quality equals higher prices for their crops.

This excelso Colombia is from the southern part of Narino region, in the Andes mountains on a volcano known as El Azufral. There are 18 farmers involved with this coffee and they are good at what they do. And it's not going to blow you away with complexity or fruitiness or nuttiness -- it's just normal coffee. But the lack of bitterness, earthiness, or defects...along with the sweetness, full bodied rich flavor and classic Colombia taste -- makes it a coffee that you can offer to anyone and have them enjoy it.

We like it at about the same roast level of how we roast our other Colombia coffees. Full City+, a few seconds into 2nd cracks tends to be our sweet spot, with hints of chocolate and cherry; in slightly lighter roasts we get grapefruit and lemonade, but at normal roasts it's coffee flavored. If you want a dark roast Colombia, it can handle that too.

US arrival December 2023.