Recommended Brew Method: Cafetiere, Filter, Stovetop
Roast: Medium
Country: Colombia
Region: Planados
District: La Cumbra
Altitude: 1600-2000 masl
Variety: Catuura,Bourbon &Typica
Process: Washed
Season: 2020
Planados Tolima is one of the most isolated coffee producing regions of Colombia located in the Central Colombia Andes mountains of Tolima nestling between the vast Parques Nacionales Natural Nevado and the Parque Nacional Natural Cordillera De Los Pichachos Andes Mountain ranges. With very limited access, other than through the town of Coyaima, mainly dirt road with conditions permitting, it is a 12-hour road trip from Ibague the province capital.
The area falls in the middle of the conflict zone for many years controlled by the FARC; a forgotten region left to the discretion of the people to basically fend for themselves, having to comply with the rules or law's set by the FARC, restricted to selling their crops to either the FNC or local trilladora’s and receiving at best only commercial prices
At these altitude’s of 1600/2000 is where the real high-quality Specialties are found; the terra enriched in volcanic soils, numerous fresh mountains streams.
Profiles: The coffees are rich in flavour, notes of red/yellow fruits, herbs, citric and lemon, deep in tense chocolate and panela, full bodied, and wonderfully balanced, excellent acidity, with an amazing after taste. Regional cupping average 85-88 - Coffees are all grown the artisanal way, fully washed and fermented up to 36 hours, sun dried, only selecting the finest of the beans when ripe all are hand-selected
The Planadas area represents 48 coffee producing hamlets representing 6821 small farms ranging from .5 to 6 hectares, renown for producing some of Colombia’s finest Specialty Micro-lot coffees, are now gaining a reputation for their higher quality commercial community coffees.
