Colombia Inzá Rio Páez

Inzá is a Municipality located in Southwestern Colombia within the greater Department of Cauca. As you make the drive from La Plata to Inzá, you follow the Río Páez, and an eventual crossing over a suspension bridge lands you on the road to the the villages of Inzá where this coffee was sourced. Like much of Colombia, Inzá is home to some very high altitude farms, many cresting 2000 meters above sea level. This particular lot is a blend of coffees from five farms in a few of the neighboring Veredas within the region, altitudes ranging from 1400 - 2000+ meters. The way we make up these regional blends is by cupping several samples from the individual farms, with a goal of separating out the best quality we can find. It's a great benefit to us (and not to mention the cup) having this level of control with our Colombian coffees, and allows us to take a quality-focused approach to constructing our regional blends, and single farm micro lots too. The wet process ("washed") style of processing coffee is traditional in the region, and many farmers use old hand cranked style pulpers, fermenting and washing the coffee seeds in the same tank, and then drying in covered drying rooms for upwards of two weeks. This last part is key in facilitating even and gentle drying of the parchment, not to mention protecting the coffee from passing rains. Most farms have a healthy amount of Caturra, Timor hybrids, like Variedad Colombia and Tabi, that were heavily promoted for disease resistance, and smaller amounts of Bourbon and Typica.