Colombia
Faver Emir Ninco

This lot is ML grade, a category that Caravela (the importer) reserves for the best and highest quality micro lots.

Washed process Pink Bourbon

Flavour: plum, peach, strawberry

Body: Acidity:

Everyone in Faver’s family has been coffee producers. Hailing from a traditional coffee-growing family in Colombia, Faver dreamed of becoming a producer from a young age. When he was old enough and had saved enough money, he purchased a piece of land in Santa Maria, Huila, 25 years ago, and began producing coffee on his own. Since then, Finca Costa Rica has become both Faver and his family’s home and their sole source of income.

This land provides the Ninco family with everything they have, which drives them to maintain its beauty and sustainability and invest in infrastructure to improve coffee quality. “Producing specialty coffee has increased my income and helped my family enjoy a better life while continually improving as coffee producers,” Faver says.

Faver works on Finca Costa Rica with his wife, Andrea, forming a strong team. Andrea is responsible for feeding the workers and managing the drying process, ensuring that the parchment is constantly moved and the coffee reaches optimal humidity levels. Together, as a couple and family, they strive to improve their quality and set a positive example for other farmers in the region.

Faver has a message for coffee consumers: “You are enjoying coffee produced with the tremendous effort of an entire family, and I genuinely hope you continue to enjoy it for many more years.”

Faver’s coffee process starts with the selective manual picking of ripe cherries, avoiding any green cherries that could affect quality. The cherries are then taken to the farm’s wet mill, where they ferment for 24 to 30 hours in plastic containers before being pulped. Next, the coffee is fermented for an additional 60 to 80 hours in closed plastic containers. After fermentation, the coffee is washed only once, leaving some mucilage on the beans. It is then dried in the drying area for 10 to 15 days. Once dried, Faver stores the coffee in GrainPro bags within jute bags, placed on pallets in a dedicated space on the farm, to stabilize for another 10 to 15 days.

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Ethical, traceable sourcing

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The transparency helps us talk confidently about the quality and background of our product, and it helps you know exactly what you’re buying.

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Our coffee philosophy
Our business approach

Fresh harvest coffee

We only source and roast coffee from each country’s latest harvest season (so the green coffee is never older than 1 year from the time of picking, processing and packing). This ensures the sensory qualities are always at their peak and unaffected by excessive ageing.

Roasted for espresso and filter (best enjoyed black)

Roast style: omni. Omni roasts are designed to brew and taste great both as espresso and filter. Our omni single origins generally sit on Agtron values in the ~70-60 value range. So, technically, they are somewhere in the lighter side of the medium spectrum.

Designed for espresso and filter brewing. Best enjoyed black.

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Our Loring Kestrel S35 roaster
Our roasting style and approach

Best brewed within days 15-49 post-roast

The ‘fresh is best’ saying doesn’t apply to coffee (contrary to popular belief). Waiting before opening and brewing your bag of whole coffee beans helps develop peak flavour and acidity.

But heads up: if you buy pre-ground coffee, brew it as soon as possible.

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Our recommended brewing window

Try our custom brewing recipes

Our recipes and ratios are tailored to our coffee sourcing and roasting styles, bringing the best flavour and feel out of each coffee.

For pour over, immersion, and other filter brewing styles, check our brew guides.
For our espresso single origins, we recommend a coffee:yield ratio of 1:3:

Dose: 20g ground coffee
Yield: 60g espresso
Total brew time: ~24-28 seconds

This is just a starting point! We encourage you to experiment, taste, and adjust to find the recipe that you enjoy the most.

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Our espresso brew guide (single origin)
Brewing ratio calculator

Packaging and sustainability

Bags: ABA-certified home compostable (AS 5810-2010)
Labels: recyclable
Valves (only on +250g bags): general waste
Box and tape (online orders): recyclable

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Our packaging

Producer: Faver Emir Ninco
Farm/Coop: Finca Costa Rica
Country: Colombia
Region: Huila
Altitude: 2035m above sea level
Variety: Pink Bourbon
Process: washed
Harvested: October 2024
Country grade: Excelso (Colombia)
Importer Grade: ML/X-Grade (Caravela)
Importer: Caravela
Body
Acidity
Tasting notes: Plum, peach, strawberry
Roast style: Omni (filter + espresso)

Variety

Pink Bourbon variety

Pink Bourbon is an Ethiopian Heirloom variety (or subvariety)—though, until very recently (~2023), it was thought to be a rare and spontaneous hybrid/mutation of Red and Yellow Bourbon.

The location

Coffee from Colombia

Colombia is one of the largest coffee producers in the world and benefits greatly from having one of the most unique and complex set of micro-climates of all coffee producing nations.

The Huila region of Colombia

This region boasts the perfect combination of high quality soil and geography and is quickly becoming one of the largest coffee producing regions in Colombia. One of the best regarded regions for high quality, fruit driven coffee.

Farm processes

Washed process

Machines are used to remove the flesh from the coffee cherry before being fermented in water, washed again, and finally sun dried. This process tends to result in more distinct, cleaner flavours.