ORIGIN: Planadas, Tolima, Colombia
CO-OP: ASEMPROGROPE
VARIETIES: Caturra, Castillo and Colombia
PROCESS: Fully washed and dried in the sun
ALTITUDE: 1650 - 2100 masl
SOIL: Clay minerals
HARVEST: May -August | September - December
CUPPING SCORE: 84
Ready to roast, green beans from Planadas, Tolima, Colombia. Produced by organic and Fairtrade certified cooperative: Asociación Emprender de Productos Agrícolas y pecuarios Los Mangos (ASEMPROGROPE).
Cup Profile: hints of tropical fruits (pineapple and papaya) and golden raisin with a crisp acidity of red apple. Full-bodied, creamy mouthfeel.
Available in bags of 250g, 500g or 1kg for home roasting. ROAST BEFORE CONSUMPTION.
ASEMPROGROPE, formed of 68 smallholder producer-members, is committed to championing women in coffee, ASEMPROGROPE boasts a board of directors with 80 percent of the positions held by women, including the president of the board.
Amongst various projects for improvement of coffee quality and the lives of coffee producers and their families, the cooperative have invested in a basic wet-mill infrastructure. Individual producers carefully harvest and sort cherries before depulping, fermenting, washing, and drying the coffee using their own micro-mills.
Fairtrade certified, traded, audited and sourced from Fairtrade producers, total 100%. For more visit info.fairtrade.net/sourcing FFLM0071
