Finca Terrazas del Pisque is a 38-hectare farm of which 15 hectares are planted in coffee, the other available land is used for growing avocados and citrus fruits.

Located in Ecuador’s Pichincha region, this farm boasts an annual production of almost 15,000 kg of specialty coffee a year. In this area of Ecuador, harvest happens nearly year-round and only the ripest cherries are selected for processing.

Once picked, cherries are processed as Washed or Naturals, and sometimes fermented Anaerobically first.

For washed lots, the cherries are first depulped, fermented for 36 hours, washed, and then dried on raised beds for an average of 12 days.

The Java varietal traces back to the Ethiopian Heirloom varietal; which was then selected and transplanted to Cameroon in the mid-20th century. In 1991 it was introduced to Costa Rica and then on to Ecuador.

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