This is a traditional washed Gesha cultivar coffee from Huila, Colombia, produced by Juliana Guevara and Wbeimar Lasso on their estate, La Terraza.
What Wbeimar Lasso and Juliana Guevara have done with this storied coffee tree is simply to plant it, care for it, and process it in a straightforward and traditional fermented and washed style reminiscent of the early days of its glory, and I’m quite taken by it.
Having tasted it in a couple of roasts over a few cupping tables and pour-overs lately, I’m a little bit surprised every time. The coffee can be a bit of a shapeshifter, showy rosewater and lavender in one place setting, tropical guava and syrupy sweet honeydew melon in another. It comes across a little shy sometimes, only to open dramatically as it cools, keeping you captivated as you taste.
The classic notes are all here, of course, mandarin orange, jasmine, honeysuckle, etc., etc., but I think it’s the composure and clarity and the intrigue of its secret flavors – the ones that only emerge as you return for just one more sip – that captures my attention… to the effect that “one last sip” rarely ever is.
Taste: Jasmine, rose water, tea like, apricot
Origin: Huila, Colombia
Variety: Geisha
Process: Washed
Roast: Light
