Colombia Narino
Buesaco

 

Tasting Notes

FLAVOR: apple, cherry cola, brown sugar, very smooth 

BODY: Medium

ACIDITY: Medium

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Recommended Roast Level

Any

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About the Coffee

In Narino coffee is everywhere, seemingly everyone grows it or is a part of the process. But in the micro-region of Buesaco, its a serious part of life. Every time you get in a jeep to drive to a farm there's coffee being dried on the side of the street or weighed down trucks bringing beans to the warehouse. Craft coffee is becoming a bigger deal in this area. With fantastic coffeeshops like, Amor Perfecto, offering region-specific brews and sourcing only Colombian beans you get the sense that the Buesaco coffee farmers are starting to take a lot of pride and attention to their production.

This bean comes from a single farmer by the name of Alvaro Montilla. He owns the highest altitude land in all of Buesaco and grows an amazing coffee on it. It has a brown sugar and apple sweet fruit taste that really hits the spot. It's a delicious medium roast -a real gem. When we take it lighter, just 30 seconds out of 1st cracks we taste a nice juicy coffee with lemon-lime acidity, raspberry, lemongrass, honey, lots of complexity. This is where the coffee is most interesting but not the most drinkable. If you take it a little darker, not quite to 2nd cracks but heading towards it, you get apple, cherry cola, brown sugar, very smooth, so easy to drink. If you want a dark roast Colombia, you are probably better off buying a less expensive bean, but if you accidentally take this one dark, it can handle it, with slight hints of fruit sweetness beneath the roastiness.