Colombia Inzá Vereda San Antonio

This blend of coffee from Inzá is made up of coffees from small producers in Vereda San Antonio, Inzá ("vereda" being the equivalent of a small neighborhood). This time around we have 12 bags in total from three different farms in San Antonio town. The province of Inzá is located in Southwestern Colombia within the greater Department of Cauca. As you make the drive from La Plata to Inzá, you follow the Rio Páez, and an eventual crossing over a suspension bridge lands you on the road to the the villages whose coffees make up this blend. Like much of Colombia, Cauca is home to some very high altitude farms, many breaching the 2000 meter mark, the coffee from this lot harvested from an altitude range of about 1600 to 2000 meters. The way we make up these regional blends is by cupping several samples from the individual farms, separating out those that meet a certain cup criteria, and then blending them together. This is a wet-processed coffee, most farmers using old style hand-cranked pulpers, fermenting and washing in the same tank, and then drying out on raised, covered beds. Most farms have a healthy amount of Caturra planted, as well as some of the common Timor hybrids you see in Colombia, like Variedad Colombia and Tabi, that were produced for disease resistance and higher productivity.