Colombia

Risaralda 19+, Colombia

banana up front · toffee · caramel

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How it sits among coffee from Colombia

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Colombia: 1,039 of 1,556 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Long & Short Coffee describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Colombia; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Colombia, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Colombia coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Colombia

Variety

Castillo, Caturra

Altitude

525 m

Not stated

region, farm or estate, producer, process, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

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.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, lowest

“The farms are located at altitudes of around 1,525 metres above sea level and these communities range in size from 9 to 15 hectares.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“This batch uses the Castillo cultivar, a new type developed by the Colombian Coffee Federation a few years ago that was designed to be rust-resistant in the continual battle for healthy crops for the farmers and their families.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“There’s a hint of banana up front, although not overwhelmingly so, which quickly smoothes into familiar choc-nut territory.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“This Colombian coffee is produced by approximately 30 coffee producers from communities in the Department of Risaralda which is situated in the central Andean region of western Colombia, humbly equidistant from the famed narco territories of Medellin and Cali, and 400km from the country’s capital, Bogota.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roasted for

“For espresso orders, we’ll push the roast a tad to smooth out the acidity and increase body and sweetness.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roasted to order

“Remember that the coffee is roasted to order as a fresh product — we recommend that you drink it within 2 weeks, 4 weeks at most from the roasting date, or the coffee will be far from its best!” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“There’s a hint of banana up front, although not overwhelmingly so, which quickly smoothes into familiar choc-nut territory.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

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.