Finca La Loma, Colombia

Chocolate. Plum. Caramel. 

This medium-dark roast is a big sweet cup of chocolate and plum flavour, with a really addictive thread of caramel throughout. Very moreish and suitable for all sorts of brew and extraction methods. 

Finca La Loma, meaning 'green hills', is a 20 hectare farm in the mountainous region of southwest Antioquia run by Juan Carlos Guerra, a 5th generation coffee farmer. His father, Alfonso Eduardo Guerra, has owned a neighbouring farm since the 1960s and bought La Loma in 2005. The farm's 140,000 Caturra, Castillo and Colombia trees are painstakingly maintained, aiming to marry productivity with environmental stewardship. Plots are fertilised twice a year using products certified as friendly to wildlife.

This region of Colombia has two harvests every year. For this lot, the cherries were hand-picked, transported to Green Hill's mill where it is sorted by both machine and hand, eco-pulped and washed by the canal to remove fruit, and then fermented for 144 hours. The coffee is then mechanically dried for 12 hours and then moved to marquesinas (like raised beds) to finish drying before being gathered, hulled, and prepped for export. 

Origin: Ciudad Bolívar, Antioquia, Colombia

Producer: Juan Carlos Guerra, Alfonso Eduardo Guerra, and Olga Escobar

Varietal: Caturra & Yellow Colombia

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1800 - 2100 metres 

Green coffee sourcing partner: Mercanta