Ecuador . Edwin Calva
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What Qima Cafe says about this coffee
Notes of fudge, gala apple, pear tea, and blood orange.
From La Loma, a small farm in Palanda, in Ecuador's Zamora Chinchipe region, at 1,400 metres above sea level. The farm covers two hectares, with coffee planted across just over half of it, grown under shade alongside fruit trees and native species. La Loma is run by Edwin Calva, a third-generation producer whose family has farmed this hillside since his grandparents first planted coffee here. Edwin works with F1 hybrid varieties and a washed protocol shaped by years of experimentation, carrying the work forward while pushing what a small Ecuadorian farm can produce.
A clean, structured cup with quiet depth. Familiar enough to drink every day. Specific enough to belong to one farm, one family, one hillside that has held coffee for three generations.
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