About This Coffee
Omar Manchabajoy produces coffee at Finca Exmirna in La Florida in Nariño. His farm sits at the high altitudes of 1,950 meters above sea level, where the warm days and cool nights provide the ideal climate for cultivating sweet, dense cherry. Oscar delivers his parchment to Café de Occidente, a regional cooperative for coffee producers.
Harvest & Post-Harvest
Omar selectively handpicks ripe, red cherry and processes it on his farm. He grows both Castillo and Caturra and processes them together as Fully washed. He washes and pulps cherry and ferments it for 15 hours. Following fermentation, he washed parchment in clean water and lays it to dry in parabolic dryers. He rakes parchment frequently to ensure even drying. It takes approximately 15 days for parchment to dry.
Azahar
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.
Coffee in Colombia
Colombia has been producing and exporting coffee renowned for their full body, bright acidity and rich aftertaste, since the early 19th century.
Colombia boasts a wide range of climates and geographic conditions that produce their own unique flavors in coffee. This also means that harvest times can vary quite a bit. In fact, between all its different regions, Colombia produces fresh crop nearly all year round.
The increasing focus on the specialty industry is changing the way traders and farmers do business. It is becoming more common for farmers to isolate the highest quality beans in their lots to market separately. These higher-quality lots are often sold under specific brands or stories.
Besides its wide variety of cup profiles, Colombia has quickly expanded its certification options over the past 10 years. The most common certifications available are Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Organic.