Colombia | Nariño | Consuelo Gomez | Microlot

Cupping Notes 

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Origin: Colombia

Region: Nariño

Province: Nariño

District: El Tablón De Gómez

Community:  Los Alpes

Varietal: 100% Arabica Coffee: Castilla

Roast Level: Light, City+

Process: Washed

Fermentation: 15-17 hours in cement tanks

Drying:  8-12 Days on patios and raised beds

Elevation: 1900 m above sea level

Farm size:  3 hectares

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DESCRIPTION

The Los Alpes community is located in the Tablon de Gomez municipality in one of the most famous coffee-growing areas of Colombia, Nariño. It’s an area where coffee has made an immense and positive difference in quality of life. To get to Los Alpes, first have to fly to Bogota, then take a local flight to Nariño. In Nariño you board a pickup—one of few vehicle types that can pass through the muddy dirt roads ahead—and ride for another 2 hours.

With approximately 280 people, Los Alpes is a very small community with a deeply-rooted tradition of ecological protection.  All Los Alpes producers preserve part of their farm as untouchable forest. They also leave native plants untouched in places where waterways originate, and keep livestock out of those areas. They are hyper aware that climate change is a real problem and that as it worsens, their community and others like it will bear the earliest and most severe consequences.

The producers here focus primarily on coffee, intercropping with other fruit trees that they use for shade like avocado and lemon. They also raise free-range animals such as chickens, pigs, and guinea pigs, whose manure and consumption contribute to the integrated ecosystem. The coffee-growing area of Los Alpes reaches between 1750 and 2000 meters above sea level, but the mountains of the community reach extreme elevations up to 3500 masl—hence the name of Los Alpes, Spanish for “The Alps.”

Los Alpes shares a culture of peace and respect between neighbors. In August, everyone gets together to celebrate San Ezequiel, their patron saint. On this holiday, each house puts together a troupe at the door of their houses to join the general celebration by sharing fried guinea pig and liquor.

Consuelo is a producer of Los Alpes, her farm La Cascada has an area of 3 hectares and she grows the variety Castilla, bananas, cavassa and avocados, after a selective harvest is done the coffee is send to cement tanks where is fermented during 15 to 17 hours and then the coffee is dried in patios or raised beds between 8-12 days.

Consuelo lives with her husband and 2 children, her farm La Cascada has access to the road only for motorcycles, Consuelo has been producing coffee for the last 25 years.

Social Responsibility | Small family farm located in a community of like minded farmers who are hyper aware of the importance of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Available in 12 oz stand up pouches whole bean.