Colombia Finca Villa Sofia Maria Nancy Cuellar: Sample Coffee Roasters

Colombia
Finca Villa Sofia
Maria Nancy Cuellar

Washed process Caturra, Colombia

Flavour: marshmellow, melon, peach

Body: Acidity:

Maria Nancy Cuellar was born and raised around coffee – it’s always been part of her life.

She was raised with her parents producing coffee and she plans to raise her children the same way, by producing coffee. Maria Nancy and her husband decided to start investing in and producing specialty coffee for the wellbeing of their children.

For this couple, their children are the most important thing in their decisions. They named their farm Villa Sofía to honour their youngest child, and their only daughter. The extra income from producing specialty coffee helps Maria Nancy offer her children a good quality of life.

Maria Nancy and her husband Edwin work together on their farm, they divide the work and the farm activities, and both aim towards producing better coffee together.

“The production of specialty coffee can have drastic changes in one’s lives. But these are positive changes. Yes, we need more time, it’s more work, more attention to detail in every single part of the process, but the work definitely pays off.” says Maria Nancy.

She is deeply proud everything on her farm, but mainly, she is proud that although is small, it has produced great coffee and it has allowed them to maintain their family in good economic terms.

The farm has a very pleasant location: it’s high, with a beautiful landscape, and it has a great weather. They plan to improve their post-harvest infrastructure soon for them to continue improving the quality of their crop.

Sourcing and ingredients

100% Caturra, Colombia coffee beans, provided by Caravela and roasted by us on Gadigal land / Sydney.

Country grade: Unknown ?

Packaging

Bag: ABA Certified home compostable
Label: Recyclable
Valve (on bags larger than 250g): General waste
Coffee ordered online is shipped in a recyclable cardboard box

Brewing this coffee

We recommend brewing this coffee 15–49 days post-roast. If pre-ground, brew as soon as possible. Our advice on storing coffee.

1:3
dose:yield
ratio

To brew on espresso, we recommend using 20g of beans (dose) to get 60g of espresso out (yield), during 24-28 seconds.

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g yield

View the how to brew espresso (single origin) guide.

1:16.7
beans:water
ratio

To brew in infusion/fed brewers (V60, Chemex) use a ratio of 1:16.7 ratio of beans:water.

g beans

g water

View full recipes and videos in our brewguides

1:14.3
beans:water
ratio

To brew in immersion brewers (plunger, AeroPress, Kalita, batch brewer) we recommend using a 1:14.3 ratio of beans:water

g beans

g water

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1:12
beans:water
ratio

To brew as cold brew we recommend using a 1:12 ratio of beans:water

g beans

g water

View full recipes and videos in our brewguides

Producer: Maria Nancy Cuellar
Country: Colombia
Region: Huila
Altitude: 1800m above sea level
Varietals: Caturra, Colombia
Process: Washed
Harvested: July 2020
Body
Acidity
Tasting notes: Marshmellow, melon, peach
Roast style: Omni (filter + espresso)

Varietals

Caturra varietal

Caturra is a natural mutation of Bourbon that was originally discovered in Brazil in 1937, considered to be the first naturally occurring mutation ever discovered.

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.