Colombia Pedregal Vereda Agua Blanca

Agua Blanca is equipped with brilliant aromatics, well rounded mouthfeel, heavy sweetness, and elegant acidity. The dry grounds of light roasts are perfumed with dried apricot, cane sugar, and honey. Our Full City roast shows a hint of marshmallow as well as a dark cacao. This coffee has a layered sweetness from start to finish. This is expressed in the wet grounds as light caramel, butterscotch, and simple syrup. There's also a note of raw almond that verges on marzipan. The flavors of Agua Blanca are deep, and well engrained in the cup profile across the roast spectrum. Our City+ roast has a nice fruited profile that is juicy, with asian pear, passion fruit, and a hint of guava. There's apple as well that vacillates between the tart aspects of green apples and the up-front sweetness of red - like what you find in a Honey Crisp apple. This is a coffee that really opens up as it cools. The fruits transform from tropical, to green grape, to citrus, to...the list grows and becomes more complex the longer you have this coffee in your mouth. Roasting into the realm of Full City brings about a citrus quality that is zest in flavor and pulpy in mouthfeel. It's equal parts kumquat and fresh squeezed orange juice. At City/City+ roast levels, this coffee is an excellent drinking coffee, but the complex profile stands up to both light and darker roasts (but we'd stay away from second crack). The dark roasts make an amazing single origin espresso, and a wonderful blending component.

Country: Colombia
Region: Pedregal
Grade: 15+ Estate Grade
Mark:
Processing: Wet Process (Washed)
Crop: February 2013 Arrival
Appearance: .0 d/300gr, 15+ screen
Varietal: Caturra
Intensity/Prime Attribute: Medium Intensity/ Delicate, fresh fruit, simple syrup sweetness.
Roast: City/City+ is recommended, but darker roasts will make a very nice SO espresso. It's best to let this coffee rest at least 24 hours.
Compare to:
Dry Fragrance 8.60
Wet Aroma 8.80
Brightness/Acidity 8.70
Flavor/Depth 8.80
Body/Movement 8.6
Finish/Aftertaste 8.70
Sweetness 8.90
Clean Cup 8.8
Complexity 8.70
Uniformity 8.50
Cupper's Correction 1.00
Total 81