Cappojim Columbo Yumbo Columbia Tolima Productores de Ibague

COLUMBO YUMBO™

Colombia Tolima Productores de Ibague - Unrefined sugar sweetness is central to the cup, accented by top notes of oatmeal cookie, molasses, dried date and cola nut, with plum like acidity.

Ibagué is Tolima's capital city, and at half a million residents, is quite sizable. It's not a particularly high altitude city (1200+ meters), but you don't have to travel far outside of city's center to reach high grown coffee. The coffees in this lot are from the outlying areas of Machín and China Alta that lie just west and north of the city. The farmers whose coffees we purchased belong to local coffee associations  where they sell their coffee and receive benefits in the form of agronomical and business support. We obtained this coffee through a buying project of an intermediary we work with who reach out to coffee cooperatives/associations in areas where they've tasted good quality and then with the association's approval, offer to pay farmers a premium for the opportunity to separate out all of their coffees that meet a particular quality target. The coffees in Machín and China Alta are grown between 1850 and 1950 meters above sea level and the cultivars typically grown are Caturra and Variedad Colombia. Some of the farmers are mixing batches from up to a few days in the fermentation tanks, changing the water with each day's addition in order to keep the coffee from over fermenting. This is part of the reason the coffee is fruit forward for a wet-process coffee.