Diego Osorio La Estrella FW

At Finca La Estrella (Spanish for stars), Diego Andrés Camacho Osorio shoots for the moon with his excellent Fully washed coffees. Located in Los Pinos in Huila, Finca La Estrella sits at 1,800 meters above sea level, creating the ideal conditions for cultivating sweet, dense cherry. Diego capitalizes on these superb conditions with quality-focused processing that preserves and enhances the flavors of his coffee.

Diego is a part of Manos al Grano, a non-profit organization founded in 2021 to support coffee pickers. Manos al Grano provides training for coffee pickers and legalizes their work by paying them legally through a bank. Laborers also receive benefits like health insurance and a pension.

Trained pickers with Manos al Grano selectively handpick ripe, red cherry and deliver it to Diego’s on-farm wet mill. Cherry is left to ferment lightly for 12 hours and is then pulped and placed in tanks to ferment for 24 hours. Following fermentation, parchment is washed in clean water and laid on patios to dry. Parchment dries on patios for 2 days before being finished at low temperature in a mechanical dryer for 40 hours.

Azahar Colombia works directly with producers to source excellent, traceable coffee from Colombia’s best producing regions. They pride themselves on transparent relationships that improve incomes and quality.

In addition to their exporting arm, Azahar also operates a roastery in Quindío and several cafés in Bogotá that serve superb locally-produced coffees to Colombian consumers.