This is another belter from one of our old favourites, Jorge Mira at El Jaragual! And another one of their ‘advanced washed’ processed coffees. We’re getting a clean and refreshing mouthfeel with loads of complexity, a little bit of funk and lots of tropical fruit notes. This Yellow Bourbon lot is slightly less funky than the Pink Bourbon and Caturra that we featured from Jaragual previously, but we are enjoying flavour notes like papaya, apricot, dried raspberries, sometimes a slight floral note like rose and some marzipan!
The Producer
El Jaragual is the family farm of one of our importing partners, Jonny Martinez. Initially we started working with Jonny to buy the incredible coffees produced by superstar farmer, Wilton Benitez, which are imported by Jonny’s company, Micafe. However, when Jonny told us that his family farm, El Jaragual, has started working closely with Wilton to develop similar processing styles, we had to taste them!
El Jaragual is overseen by Jonny’s cousin, Jorge Mira, and is located in Amalfi, in the Antioquia region of Colombia. The farm is about 150 hectares in size and currently produces 7 varieties, including more traditional varieties such as Castillo, Colombia and Caturra and recently they have started growing more premium varieties such as Pink Bourbon, Gesha, Typica Mejorado and Sidra.
Jorge’s background was as a forestry engineer, so naturally a large portion of El Jaragual is dedicated to sustainable forestry and conservation. The farm features a blend of pine tree plantation aimed at sustainable timber production and also conservation areas of native forest.
El Jaragual also go above and beyond to look after their people. During harvest time they get an influx of workers which they pay by time and always above minimum wage. They also provide meals for workers and pay pension contributions and health insurance. Permanent workers also get bonuses at the end of the year and social events are hosted for workers, their families and the local community as well as contributions being made to the local school which has about 60 children.
