COLOMBIA ZANAIDA ADARME #1506

Curator's Notes

This honey process coffee is a chocolate covered cherry in your mug! At the top of your taste buds, bright apricot and ripe kiwi, followed by a lingering black cherry juiciness and milk chocolate creaminess. Complex, balanced, and sugar sweet!

Roaster's Notes

We often taste coffees that are overwhelmed by processing – these coffees have a tendency to wash out terroir. Honey processed coffees can be a mixed bag. Here, we have an example of a coffee with a symbiotic balance of terroir and process. We taste notes of kiwi, apricot, blackberry, lychee, and a refined sugar sweetness. This stunning lot comes to us from producer Zanaida Adarme, based in Aponte Village, which is tucked in a mountainous backdrop at elevations of 2200 masl. Initially, she started processing all of her coffee exclusively as washed, as is common in the region of Nariño. A couple of years ago she started to produce honey-processed, by recommendation of a neighbor.