Tasting notes

 - apricot, honeycomb & nougat

Brewing

We suggest using this coffee for filter brew methods, such as a pourover, aeropress, chemex or batch brew (or similar). It's roasted a bit lighter to accentuate the delicious fruitiness and acidity that we love.

Origin Information

Country : Colombia

State : Huila

Municipality : San Augustín

Elevation : 1800 MASL

Variety : Colomia

Processing : Washed

Farm size : 6.5 hectares

Farm Owner : Wilmer Moncayo and Yenni Anacona

Growth Story

This microlot was produced by Wilmer Moncayo and his wife Yenni Anacona, who own the six and a half hectare farm La Loma. The farm sits at 1,800m above sea level, and is located near the town of San Agustín, in the southwest of Colombia’s state of Huila.

Like many of his neighbours, Wilmer grew up learning the trade at his family’s coffee farm, where he helped out during his teenage years. Eventually, he moved overseas and spent four years working in the United States. Having saved enough money during this time, Wilmer returned to San Agustín and purchased the land to establish La Loma. Still only in his late 30s, he and his wife Yenni hope to start a family at the farm in the future — for now, however, they’re focusing on building up their estate and developing a career in specialty coffee production. To accomplish this, Wilmer and Yenni have mainly planted varieties like Gesha and Pink Bourbon, two rare varieties with direct links to Ethiopia that are prized for their intensely floral and complex flavour profile and elegant acidity, alongside pest-resistant hybrids like Colombia and Castillo. Because of the farm’s high elevation and Wilmer’s careful processing practices, all of La Loma’s coffees present a distinct winey character and abundant floral notes in the cup, regardless of their variety. Wilmer farms with traditional techniques, applying fertilisers around three times a year after manual weeding and rarely using pesticides.

Most of San Agustín’s producers grow coffee at their primary farms, and tend to other vegetables and fruit in parcels of land in the nearby state of Caquetá. Towards the end of the coffee harvest, producers like Wilmer will relocate to complete the harvest of their food crops. Recognising this is exhausting, Pergamino have focused on teaching producers they work with in the region to intercrop fruit and vegetables with coffee, thereby maximising their land and providing year-round sustenance from their primary site.