Introduction of Columbia COE introduction of La Lagrimita teardrop Manor

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CoE, namely Cup of Excellence, CoE competition beans have become the index model of coffee competition among coffee producing countries in the world. At present, seven important coffee producing countries have joined the CoE competition, including Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia in South America, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and other countries in Central America. Because of the CoE competition, small coffee farmers in coffee producing countries are convinced and their coffee growing quality is specifically improved. It also allows foreign buyers to have direct access to the manor, thus promoting the high quality coffee produced by these hard-working coffee farmers. Coffee organizations of various producing countries are also willing to cooperate vigorously with the concept of CoE, on the one hand, it can deepen the impression of international people. After all, these producing countries also compete fiercely with each other, which can give the impression that the consuming country [a certain country produces good coffee] has a very good brand value, which is not easy to achieve with any amount of money, but there are also some powerful opposition forces in the producing country. For example, middlemen who traditionally exploit farmers and businessmen with vested interests (for example, this year's CoE competition in Bolivia was cancelled, and many small coffee farmers in the country were sad and aggrieved when they learned about it). Generally speaking, the CoE competition mode does bring a very positive encouragement and a high quality and favorable environment for small coffee farmers in various coffee producing countries. The combination of three favorable conditions for improving one's social status is developing rapidly and has been well received. This year's European boutique coffee association SCAE, in recognition of CoE's outstanding contribution, the SCAE jury specially awarded the "True Substainability award" award to Susie Spindler, the president of CoE. The comment is: for understanding and promoting long-term survival of coffee culture based on quality.

CoE is really the most important quality manor model in the boutique coffee industry!

CoE first passes the selected domestic judges' primary selection and then cup tests, and those that meet the criteria of the semi-finals (usually less than 75 per 500 estates enter the semi-finals) are then assigned by the international judges selected each year to carry out three-stage cup tests. therefore, the coffee of these national competitions actually have to go through five strict rounds before we know whether they are on the annual list of winning estates and these winning coffee estates of that year's national competition. The lowest score must reach 84, and more than 30 manors may be listed in excellent and wonderful years, but strict standards coupled with years with abnormal climate may also lead to only more than 20 winning manors in that year, and many other manors can only make greater efforts to improve their quality, hoping to be included in the ∼ list in the coming year.

La Lagrimita (teardrop Manor) is the winning estate of the second CoE contest in Colombia in 2005! At present, among the national CoE competitions, only Colombia has two competitions a year. This is because coffee producing countries on both sides of the equator have different harvest times, so Colombia has only two competitions a year for ∼.

The second competition in Costa Rica is often when some high-altitude estates have just harvested and dealt with high-quality beans, so you can often find some high-altitude estates in the second CoE competition. Osher's La Lagrimitaj estate is a small estate with a very high altitude and a cold local climate. Because it is only harvested once a year, it can only be harvested once a year, so she can only participate in the second CoE competition.

La Lagrimita Manor, whose name is rather sad, is called "teardrop" Manor. The bitter history of this manor comes from the owner's grandmother who spent all her possessions to buy this coffee farm. The planting process has gone through many vicissitudes of life, but also to maintain the family income. Today, the manor still needs to plant fruit trees and raise poultry to make a living, according to the owner Eliuth Mu é Eliuth Mu ñ oz M. interviewed by Colombian FNC officials: we are really a small manor. Only 40 bags of raw beans are harvested in a year, so I have to rely on other cash crops to survive. I am 50 years old, but I am still single and unable to take a wife. But we are very careful to maintain the original environment of the manor, 6 hectares of farm, only 2 hectares to grow coffee, all coffee has 100% shade trees, soil and water conservation is very good, we also introduced California red earthworms to do soil organic cultivation, as the main source of coffee trees …

The following is the basic information on the winning teardrop Manor in Colombia's CoE Competition (second match in 2005):

Country: Colombia

Name of the manor: La Lagrimita (teardrop Manor)

Major cities near the manor: Tambo, provincial: Cauca

Owner of the manor: Jos é Eliuth Mu ñ oz M

CoE ranking: 20

Manor area: 6 hectares

Coffee planting area: 2 ha

Altitude: 1800 m

Annual rainfall: 1710 mm

Shading condition: 100% shading planting

Water resources: natural mountain springs and tap water

Full-time worker: 1 (that is, the brother of the garden owner)

Part-time workers: hire 4 temporary workers during the harvest period

Variety: Caturra 50%, Colombia 50%

Treatment method: traditional washing method Traditional wet milling process

Number of bags in batches: 24 bags

International evaluation score: 85.68

Cup test code #: 280

International judges' description comments: sweet, apple juice, fine red wine, chocolate, bubble, juicy, fresh and cool, chocolate, sparkling, juicy, fresh, refreshing, lingering)

Qianjie recommended cooking parameters:

Hand punch: V60 filter cup small Fuji R440 grinding 3.5, water temperature about 90 degrees

The recommended grinding degree of normal pressure is 4 and the water temperature is 90 ℃.

The recommended siphon grinding degree is 4, and the water temperature is 90 ℃ ~ 91 ℃.

The pressure grinding degree of Philharmonic is recommended to be 3.5, and the water temperature is 90 ℃.