Colombia Chiroso - Medium Roast

ROAST PROFILE // Medium
MILLING PROCESS // Washed
ALTITUDE // 2,100 masl
CUPPING NOTES // Intense and flavorful with notes of spiced plum and dark caramel.
 
WHY WE LOVE THIS COFFEE // We buy all of our Colombian coffees from Juan Carlos Arango who founded and runs the Arango export/import coffee company.
The Arango tag-line is “Relationship-Driven Coffee”, which we greatly appreciate.
Working directly with Juan Carlos and building long term relationships helps everyone, from the farmer to the roastery, to build a more sustainable and equitable business and life.
 
Chiroso is a newer varietal of Arabica coffee that has some interesting characteristics. It tends to be very flavorful and complex with some spicy notes to it. This year’s coffee is from Maximiliano Vargashas. It doesn’t disappoint and is bursting with flavor that is sure to please.
 
Producer Maximiliano Vargashas been working with coffee since 2,000. He is grateful coffee gave him the opportunity to provide for his four now grown children and for his wife when she was alive. Maximiliano’s wife Maria Estela died in 2020. Maximiliano has 3,500 Chiroso trees at La Fortuna. In 2021 Maximiliano participated in a coffee competitions with his coffee and placed in the top 10. Maximiliano explains that he is very meticulous with his coffee processing, he picked one day, depulped 24 hours later, let the coffee sit in the fermentation tank for 72 hours, before washing it. Maximiliano is planning on making some improvements at his farm starting with his drying facilities and also his wet mill. He believes these improvements will allow him to improve even more the quality of his coffee.