COFFEE
This beautiful Colombian coffee was chosen for us by Catalina of CATA Exports. Catalina has been working with Edisson Vergara, a small-scale coffee grower in the Pitalito-Huila region, to bring his exceptional, speciality grade coffee to the rest of the world.
Flavour: Blackberries, brown sugar and nuts.
ROASTED TO ORDER
PRODUCER: Edisson Vergara, Pitalito-Huila, Colombia
EXPORTER: CATA Exports
SAILING CARGO VESSEL: Gallant / Blue Schooner Company
LOADING PORT: Santa Marta. Colombia - June 2022
DELIVERY PORT: Amsterdam, UK - August 2022
NAUTICAL MILES: over 5,400 nm
Pitalito-Huila is known as the municipality with the highest coffee production in Colombia and is where Edisson Vergara grows coffee with his family.
In 1993 at the age of 15, Edisson was enlisted without much choice, into the ranks of the FARC guerrilla group. In 1998 he was captured and then imprisoned for 19 years, for a crime he did not commit. “Prison is a school, if you want to follow bad steps there you can do it, but if you want to follow a path of good ironically you can also do it, you decide,” says Edisson, who chose the path to prove his innocence and that he could contribute positively to society. While in prison, Edisson finished high school and several courses to have the best possible job opportunities once freed.
After his release in 2017, he was awarded funding that allowed him to bet on a new chance at life by investing in his father’s farm and planting 22,000 coffee sticks. Today the La Sirena farm has 8 hectares of different varieties such as papaya, rosé bourbon, Castillo and Colombia. Growing exceptional quality coffee has become Edisson’s passion along with being an example to young people in the region.
Score: +84
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We post orders weekly with Royal Mail within the UK only. Expect delivery between 5-7 days. Do contact us via the form below if you have a special request.
meet the roasting room
We are chuffed to be roasting our coffee with the wonderful folks at The Roasting Room. Olly approaches coffee with a contagious passion that extends to his small but mighty team. Exceptional quality is maintained by roasting in small batches on machines he knows intimately.
This commitment to quality and sustainability matches our own, they believe that roasting (like our sail cargo supply chains) is an art and a science.
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