La Esperanza Washed
APRICOT / ALMOND / CARAMEL
Sweetness ●●●○○ Acidity ●●●●○ Body ●●●○○
| Varietal | Mixed Varietals |
| Process | Washed |
| Farm | Rigoberto and Luis Eduardo Herrera |
| Producer | Granja la Esperanza |
| Geography |
Valle del Cauca, Colombia |
| Rosso Direct |
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La Esperanza is owned by siblings, Rigoberto and Luis Eduardo Herrera, third-generation coffee producers, who come from a long standing coffee producing family. Their grandparents started their careers in coffee in 1945 at Potosi farm. After Juan Antonio Herrera and his wife Blanca Ligia Correa purchased the land with existing Typica plants, they added three more cultivars: Red Bourbon, Yellow Bourbon and Caturra. It was then that Cafe Granja La Esperanza was born. Shortly after taking over, they purchased the land for Finca La Esperanza and expanded their organic coffee production.
This lot is a blend of three different coffee varieties that are cultivated at La Esperanza, Caturra, Colombia and Mandela. These are harvested together and co-fermented after being pulped in open-air tanks for about 35 hours.