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Seasonal Feature
Finca El Mirador Washed
COLOMBIA
$23.00 – $105.00
WEIGHT 400g
PRODUCER Elkin Ferney Guzman Vargas – Finca El Mirador
VARIETY Various
ELEVATION 900 – 2,300 masl.
TASTE tropical fruit, citrus, delicately floral
ROAST DEGREE
RECOMMENDED BREW METHOD
AEROPRESS
CHEMEX
FRENCH PRESS
HARIO V60 POUR OVER
The Cup
This is a washed coffee from Huila region of Colombia. The cup is bright and fruity with notes of tropical fruit, citrus and delicate floral taste and aroma.
The Producer
Located in the town of Pitalito in Huila, Colombia, El Mirador is a 32-hectare farm with 30 hectares of coffee. The farm includes a broad collection of varieties like Catiope, Mokka, Tabi, and Gesha, as well as three different Bourbon strains including Orange, Striped, and Pink Bourbon. Caturra is a core variety for the farm as well, making it a staple for volume lots.
Elkin Guzman, the owner of El Mirador, has been surrounded by coffee since he was born. His family has always been involved in coffee cultivation, trading, or retail. Collectively, his family has celebrated over 70 years in coffee now, with 12 years of research devoted to post-harvest processing techniques. All of this research and experience has brought Elkin to utilize multiple processing techniques depending on the individual lot of coffee, including Coffee Maceration, Lactic and Acetic Natural processes, and Natural Hydro Honey.
Growing Coffee In Huila, Colombia
The Colombian Department of Huila is located in the southern portion of the country where the Central and Eastern ranges of the Andes mountains converge. Huila’s capital city of Neiva is dry, flat, and desert-like, markedly different from the coffee regions further south.
Centered around the city of Pitalito, Huila’s coffee farms are predominantly smallholder owned, and over the past ten years have made concerted efforts to produce specialty coffee that reveals the full character of the region’s terroir. Selective manual harvesting, attentive processing, and careful post-harvest sorting all contribute to increasing recognition of the region.
Huila’s departmental coffee committee, the local connection to the national Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, has invested notable resources into training producers in everything from fertilization to roasting. This, combined with producer enthusiasm, has created a regional culture of quality-focused production.
