Traceability: Producer Rigoberto Herrera
Process: Anaerobic Natural
Elevation: 5,200 ft (1600 masl)
Notes: Blackberry Jam, Sage, Dried Cherries
Method: Drip (1:16)
Net weight: 12 ounces (340 grams) / 5 lbs (2.27kg)
Info:
Rigoberto Herrera (or just Rigo for short) is a world-renown producer, one of the earliest champions of organic and Gesha production in all of Colombia. He would never say this about himself, but if you’ve ever tasted a Gesha variety coffee from Colombia, Rigo’s name is on that family tree somewhere.
The son and grandson of coffee producers, Rigo carries within him intimate knowledge of Granja’s four main farms, one of which (Finca Potosí) that’s been in the family since 1945! There is a reason these coffees have routinely placed in the top slots in Roasting, Barista and Brewer’s Competitions over the last 15 years. The curiosity, care and consistency is unlike anything we’ve seen anywhere else.
Rigoberto, taking a page out of his own playbook, is now pouring all his efforts into adapting and understanding new varieties on his farms, much in the same way he familiarized himself with Gesha nearly 20 years ago, working Java, Sudan Rume, Pacamara and more, as well as developing their own proprietary variety they call Mandela.
For this lot, we chose a variety we’ve never roasted before at Eastlick. The Mandela genetic makeup is a proprietary project developed right there on the farm by Café Granja La Esperanza in search of a coffee that meets all the requirements that most growers want: High cup quality, high production and high disease resistance. It’s already a rare feat to find a coffee the fulfills a combination of any two of those categories; to nail all three is something rare and special. This coffee in particular is a crossbreed of highly selected Caturra with the historic Timor Hybrid, the champion of disease resistance. Those offspring were then crossbred again with Ethiopian Accession coffees, most notably Sudan Rume, to arrive to the plant we have today.
The cup presents as a super clean, juicy, bright, fruity and delightfully herbal in all the right ways. This is a cup for the connoisseur and for those looking to meaningfully expand beyond a “daily cup” ritual and into a more transcendental experience where history and quality intersect.
Traceability: Producer Rigoberto Herrera
Process: Anaerobic Natural
Elevation: 5,200 ft (1600 masl)
Notes: Blackberry Jam, Sage, Dried Cherries
Method: Drip (1:16)
Net weight: 12 ounces (340 grams) / 5 lbs (2.27kg)
Info:
Rigoberto Herrera (or just Rigo for short) is a world-renown producer, one of the earliest champions of organic and Gesha production in all of Colombia. He would never say this about himself, but if you’ve ever tasted a Gesha variety coffee from Colombia, Rigo’s name is on that family tree somewhere.
The son and grandson of coffee producers, Rigo carries within him intimate knowledge of Granja’s four main farms, one of which (Finca Potosí) that’s been in the family since 1945! There is a reason these coffees have routinely placed in the top slots in Roasting, Barista and Brewer’s Competitions over the last 15 years. The curiosity, care and consistency is unlike anything we’ve seen anywhere else.
Rigoberto, taking a page out of his own playbook, is now pouring all his efforts into adapting and understanding new varieties on his farms, much in the same way he familiarized himself with Gesha nearly 20 years ago, working Java, Sudan Rume, Pacamara and more, as well as developing their own proprietary variety they call Mandela.
For this lot, we chose a variety we’ve never roasted before at Eastlick. The Mandela genetic makeup is a proprietary project developed right there on the farm by Café Granja La Esperanza in search of a coffee that meets all the requirements that most growers want: High cup quality, high production and high disease resistance. It’s already a rare feat to find a coffee the fulfills a combination of any two of those categories; to nail all three is something rare and special. This coffee in particular is a crossbreed of highly selected Caturra with the historic Timor Hybrid, the champion of disease resistance. Those offspring were then crossbred again with Ethiopian Accession coffees, most notably Sudan Rume, to arrive to the plant we have today.
The cup presents as a super clean, juicy, bright, fruity and delightfully herbal in all the right ways. This is a cup for the connoisseur and for those looking to meaningfully expand beyond a “daily cup” ritual and into a more transcendental experience where history and quality intersect.
All coffee is roasted to order every Monday and shipped the following day through USPS priority mail unless otherwise specified. Orders received on Mondays will be processed the following Monday.
Net weight: 12 ounces (340 grams) / 5 lbs (2.27 kg)
