HORIZONTE VERDE CASTILLO
Carbonic Maceration (GrainPro)
THE CUP Body ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿ | Acidity ⦿⦿⦿⦿⦿ | SCA Score 87 ⦾
FLAVOUR Red tea, lemon, and raspberry notes. With lingering and delicate flavor.
Farm Name Puerto Alegre
Producer Name Jairo López Agudelo
Flavour Red tea, lemon, and raspberry notes. With lingering and delicate flavor.
Farm Size 14 ha
Region Sardineros, Buena Vista, Quindio Process: Carbonic Maceration
Grade EP 10
Altitude 1,450 MASL
Varietals Castillo
Harvest March – May September – November
The Producer
Puerto Alegre is a family farm where Jairo and his family dedicate their lives to coffee production, always learning and innovating, including the addition of natural, honey, and carbonic maceration processing to their operations. They learnt a lot about coffee, they have been working and adopting modern methods of naturals, honey, and carbonic maceration.
Jairo López Agudelo
The time-tested traditional processes have merged with the very latest ideas in processing to create coffee that is truly unique in the cup. Castillo exhibits notes of red tea, raspberry, and lemon.
The Art of Production
Carbonic Maceration is still a new relatively new process in coffee production. The process is complex and precise. After hand-selecting cherries they go directly into a plastic fermen- tation tank where they are sealed for three days. This limits oxygen as the coffee ferments. The sugars are broken down into carbon dioxide and alcohol, causing microbes to macerate. Then the coffee is dried on parabolic beds to control airflow.
The Region
Quindio is in the west central region of Colombia, on the western slopes of the Andean Cordillera. Although it is the smallest department in the country, it is considered one of the pioneers of Colombian coffee and helped make Colombian coffee world renowned. Quindio may not be as significant but the region still produces very impressive coffee.
The region offers amazing landscapes. Rain and bamboo forests, fertile volcanic soil, and an abundance of water and altitude make the area ideal for quality coffee production.
