Maura Basante

Product Info

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COUNTRY: Colombia

DEPARTMENT: Narino

MUNICIPALITY: Ancuya

VEREDA: Indo Centro

VARIETAL: Castillo 

ELEVATION: 2100 masl

PROCESSING: Fully washed

FERMENTATION TIME: 12 hours

DRYING TIME: 8 days

WE TASTE:  Red apple, blackberry, sweet grapefruit

This is our seventh year buying from Maura! This year her coffee is expressing deeply sweet blackberry and red apple with a chocolate finish.  It is a very pleasing cup profile that will keep you coming back for more.

During our trip to visit her in June we were able to give her a moisture meter to help her more accurately determine when the coffee is done drying and ready to bring to the collection point.  If a coffee is too wet or too dry it can effect the final quality so this has helped Maura assure quality!  We are very happy with the results this year.

When we first began working with Maura she was pulping the coffee by hand, which takes a long time and is physically taxing.  It was also making it difficult for her to increase her capacity so we raised money in our cafe to help her purchase a gas powered pulper and now her capacity is double!  A great story of how relational coffee buying can truly change the lives of people on so many levels.  Thank you for being part of the story.