ColombiaSwerl Coffee Roasters · Falkenberg
Las Marías Geisha - Colombia
Not stated by the roaster
Price not usable
Every price we hold for this coffee works out far outside the believable per kilo range for its own market, or repeats unchanged across different bag sizes, so we will not put a figure to it.
Farm named
We take no commission and no payment for placement.
What Swerl Coffee Roasters says about this coffee
Sparkling and complex. Tasting like jasmine, lemongrass, oolong tea and rosé wine. A beautifully expressive Geisha.
Origin: Colombia Region: Huila Producer: Las Marías Estate Elevation: 1800 - 2050 masl Variety: Geisha Process: Double Washed
Selective Harvesting: Cherries are picked at their ripest stage, ensuring a 20 Brix grade sugar level for optimal sweetness.
First Fermentation: Whole cherries are placed in a closed tank for 12 hours, allowing initial fermentation to develop nuanced flavors.
Pulping & Second Fermentation: The cherries are pulped without water and transferred to an open tank, where they ferment without water for 24 hours.
First Wash & Third Fermentation: After washing and draining, the coffee undergoes another 24-hour open-air fermentation.
Final Wash & Drying: Once the second fermentation is complete, the coffee is washed again and carefully dried in raised African beds for approximately 25 days, ensuring a controlled temperature below 35°C to achieve a 10-11% moisture content.
-
José Giraldo is a third-generation coffee producer who has spent the past decade transforming his family’s commercial coffee heritage into a benchmark of ultra-specialty…
Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. We keep the first 1,200 characters of it, which is why it stops where it does. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)
What the roaster says about where it came from
We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.
What Swerl Coffee Roasters says about itself
Fairtrade
“Traceability, fair trade and ethically sourced have become buzz words in the industry this past decade but if we had to sum up Swerl into two words it’s likely seasonality and relationships.” their page (opens in a new tab)
Direct trade
“Grateful for all the work everyone does, from our direct trade partners in Brazil the Barreto family, the amazing work of the importer Semilla helping to build producer-run collectives at origin, to single producers like Jhon Jairo in Colombia dedicated to quality, community and consistency.” their page (opens in a new tab)
These are claims the roaster makes about its business, not about this coffee, and we have not checked them against any register.
Where each fact came from
Altitude, highest
…elevation: 1800 - 2050 masl… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Altitude, lowest
…elevation: 1800 - 2050 masl… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
A further 5 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.
Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.