Las Flores | Colombia - 200g

Country of Origin: Colombia - Huila, Acevedo
Farm: Las Flores
Cultivar: Pink Bourbon
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1750 masl
Flavor Notes: Bergamot, Lavender, Honey
Roast: Omni

A particularly clean and sweet Pink Bourbon from Las Flores farm.

The Las Flores farm was founded in 1990 by Edilberto Vergara and Nubia Ayure. Originally from the department of Cundinamarca, both grew up in a family of coffee producers and inherited a passion for rural life and especially for coffee. The farm covers 16 hectares, of which only 2 hectares were initially planted with coffee. The parents began cultivating the rest of the free land here. By 1998, the farm was fully developed. By that time, a family with five children had already formed: Xiomara, Leonardo, Carlos, Jhoan, and Diego. Traditionally, agricultural activities included growing, harvesting, washing, drying, and selling coffee.

In 2006, their mother participated in the Cup of Excellence and reached 16th place, marking the beginning of their entry into the world of specialty coffee. After their mother's death, she left an important legacy: the belief that agriculture has a future as long as everything about coffee is studied thoroughly. The children grew up with many questions, such as what happened to the coffee after delivery, where it ended up, how they could improve, and whether there was a broader market. Jhoan began to delve deeper into these questions and enrolled at Sena, where he deepened his theoretical and practical knowledge of coffee.

Today, the farm has various coffee varieties such as Java, Pink Bourbon, Maracaturra, Castillo, Colombia, Tabi, Caturra Chiroso, and Bourbon Sidra. Carlos, Jhoan, and Diego have begun developing reproducible profiles to highlight the potential of each variety. Jhoan took over the analysis of the experiments and the commercial management to make their joint work known.

In 2019, Jhoan won first place in the MASTER OF COFFEE competition with the Rosé Bourbon variety in a semi-washed process and achieved first place in an auction in South Korea. These successes reinforce their commitment to producing excellent coffee and applying the knowledge gained at every step.

The mission of Finca Las Flores is to contribute to the environment with excellent agricultural practices and to serve as a company for knowledge transfer for generational change, to promote a profitable and sustainable coffee industry. Their goal is to position themselves as a forward-looking company, conquer new markets, and offer customers an up-close experience of coffee processes.