A washed Geisha from the Los Rodriguez family in Bolivia, a lot from Finca Alasitas that we selected on our annual visit. Florals lead, then lemon blossom, with white tea on a long clean finish. Four years into working with this family now, and the washed Geishas are the ones we look forward to most each year.
Delivered to Agricafe’s Buena Vista mill, the cherries were weighed, then sorted by weight and disinfected in a machine the Rodríguez family call La Maravilla. They fermented whole for 48 hours in sealed stainless steel tanks under controlled temperature and pH, the closed lids building up CO2 to drive an intracellular ferment. Fermentation lead Adrián Silva added a measured dose of cultured yeast, the mosto, and kept the tanks shut so no oxygen got in and the boozy aroma stayed trapped. After washing, the coffee dried for 110 hours in a guardiola, then finished on Agricafe’s coco dryers to 11.5% humidity. Final sorting happened by hand at the La Luna dry mill, under UV and natural light.