El Arrayal Geisha

Each year, our partners in Colombia, Osito Coffee, host the Copa de Oro, a cup competition celebrating their producer partners all around Huila. Over the course of the week the international panel of judges scored coffees from 60 producers across three categories: central Huila, western Huila and southern Huila. This particular lot by Demetrio Sanchez was the second highest scoring coffee from western Huila. As well as producing exquisite micro lots, Demetrio is also a member of the Mártir group from whom we aim to buy all of our Colombian coffee, so it feels extra special to be able to offer this competition lot and demonstrate our commitment to going deeper rather than wider into our sourcing relationships.

Demetrio’s farm El Arrayal sits at 2100masl in the vereda of Alto Canada and spans a total of four hectares. His winning washed geisha micro lot was meticulously processed using a multi-step fermentation process. After the coffee was hand-selected for ideal ripeness, it was floated to separate any underripe cherry, before being fermented in fruit overnight, depulped and fermented in plastic barrels for a further 64 hours. The parchment was then rinsed and dried on raised beds for 25 days.