Cup Notes: Peach, White Flowers, Honey, Creamy
 
Origin: Colombia
Region: Quindío
Farmer: Edwin Noreña
Farm: Campo Hermoso 
Varietal: Caturra
Elevation: 1650masl 
 
This is a high intervention carbonic honey process coffee, co-fermented with peaches by producer Edwin Noreña on his farm, Finca Campo Hermoso located in Quindío, Colombia.
The flavor profile is, unsurprisingly, very peachy! Its hallmarks are extraordinary jelly or gummy-candy-like sweetness, floral aromatics, and strong flavors of stone fruits, including peaches, apricots, and nectarines.
 
Edwin Noreña is one of Colombia’s true processing obsessives. Known among friends as “El Alquimista” (the alchemist), Edwin has dialed in a wide repertoire of fermentation profiles, often using multiple fermentations in sequence to achieve a desired expression. This honey process microlot was made possible using two careful and distinct full cherry fermentations, the second of which was heavily fortified and infused. The result is an effusive cup with jasmine florals and flavors of fruit gummies, watermelon jelly, maple syrup, and pink lemonade. It’s fun, sophisticated, totally delicious, and not at all as cartoonish as it may sound.