Description of the Flavor of Colombian Coffee an introduction to the characteristics of Rosa Coffee beans in Columbia Hope Manor

Colombian coffee (Cafe de Colombia), which originated in Colombia, is one of the few individual coffees sold in the world under the name of the country. In terms of quality, it has won praise unmatched by other coffee. Compared with other producing countries, Colombia is more concerned with developing products and promoting production. It is this, coupled with its superior geographical and climatic conditions, that makes Colombian coffee excellent in quality and delicious and famous all over the world. Roasted coffee beans will release a sweet aroma, with sweet in the acid, bitter in the flat quality characteristics, because of the appropriate concentration, it is often used in high-grade mixed coffee. Colombian coffee exudes a light and elegant aroma, not as strong as Brazilian coffee, not as sour as African coffee, but a sweet fragrance, low-key and elegant.

History of coffee cultivation in Colombia

There are many versions of the history of coffee cultivation in Colombia, among which the Spanish missionary Jose Gumilla mentioned in his book "The Illustrated Orinoca" that local coffee plantations were discovered while preaching on both sides of the Meta River in 1730. By 1787, coffee had spread in Colombia under the influence of missionaries. Another theory is that in 1808, a priest introduced coffee beans to Colombia from the French Antilles via Venezuela.

No matter which statement is true, Colombian coffee is now the world's third largest coffee producer and exporter after Brazil and Vietnam, and the world's largest exporter of Arabica coffee beans, mainly washed coffee beans.

The suitable climate in Colombia provides a real "natural pasture" for coffee. Coffee trees in Colombia are mainly cultivated in the Andes, on steep slopes about 1300 meters above sea level, where the annual temperature is about 18 degrees Celsius, annual rainfall is 2000 to 3000 millimeters, latitude 1 °- 11 °15 north, longitude 72 °- 78 °west, the specific range of elevation is more than 2.000 meters. A special combination of factors, latitude, altitude, soil, plant origin of species and varieties of coffee production in Colombia's coffee growing area, rain patterns produced by the climate of the coffee growing area and tropical convergence, changing topography, luminosity, favorable temperature range throughout the year, moderation and Rain Water's distribution And include some common cultural practice areas in the process of selective logging and transformation, including washing and drying. Very suitable for the growth of coffee, mild climate, humid air, and can be harvested regardless of season.

Colombia has well-defined growing areas and the impressive variety of coffee they produce. Whether you want round, heavy coffee, refreshing, fruit-flavored (or somewhere in between), Columbia beans are most likely. Colombia is divided by geographical location, and it is not difficult to find that the coffee there has many common characteristics. If you like coffee in one area, other areas will like it as well. Coffee trees get double cropping in Colombia, the second main harvest and harvest each year, which is called "mitaca" locally.

CAUCA

CAUCA Cauca, best known for its coffee cultivation around Inza and Meseta de Popayan in Popayan, provides favorable growth conditions at high altitudes on the plateau and near the equator and surrounding mountains, which protects coffee from Pacific humidity and southern trade winds. This creates a very stable climate all the year round. In addition, coffee in the area has significant volcanic soil. According to historical records, there is a single rainy season from October to December every year.

Altitude: 1700-2100m

Harvest: March-June (major crops), November-December (mitaca crops)

TOLIMA

TOLIMA Tolima, one of the strongholds of Colombia's notorious rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), until recently held control. Tolima has suffered from fighting in recent years, which makes the visit difficult. High-quality coffee from the region is grown by small farmers in very small areas and exported through cooperatives.

Altitude: 1200-1900m

Harvest: 3mer-June (main crop) crops October to December (mitaca)

Variety: 9% Typica 74% Catura 17% Castillo Villa

Colombia-Manor of Hope (La Esperanza)

Colombian coffee has long been divorced from the impression of shoddy and base coffee. Through coffee competitions in recent years, people know more about Colombian coffee. Good coffee usually comes from good estates and some small and special producing areas such as Narino, but these coffee production is really not much. Before the coffee competition, Colombian coffee was graded by the size of coffee beans. But this classification only means that there is no relative relationship between the size and quality of coffee beans. "bigger beans are better." this is an outdated grading system. On the contrary, some excellent coffee farms or cooperatives with small yields and small farming areas produce smaller, more round and complete coffee beans, which is the mainstream of coffee in Colombia today, and good quality is the guarantee of price.

Colombia hopes that the proportion of defective beans screened by hand is about 4%, the weight loss ratio of roasted to city coffee beans is 14%, and the proportion of empty shell beans to bad beans is 6%. The fresh aroma of forage grass is like walking on the grass after rain, raising the steaming temperature a little bit and baking in a steeper heating way will retain more aroma and sweet and sour changes. this is the right choice for the manor.

Hope Manor is definitely the top manor in Colombia.

Its manor won the Best of Panama Best Panama Champion (2008) and runner-up (2009) *. 2012 even arranged three seats in the top ten of SCAA Coffee of the Year with three products, the incredible number 2, 3 and 7. In the newly announced GFA (Good Food Award), Hope Manor has also become the only award-winning estate outside Ethiopia, Kenya and Panama.

As for the high score record of more than 95 points on Coffee Review, it is even more dazzling, making the editor's summary so soft that he simply gives up. ****

Hope Manor has a total of four estates: Esperanza, Las Margaritas, Cerro Azul and Potosi.

Won the Best of Panama Best Panama Champion (2008) and runner-up (2009).

2012 even arranged three seats in the top ten of SCAA Coffee of the Year with three products, the incredible number 2, 3 and 7.

In GFA (Good Food Award), which has just been announced, Hope Manor has also become the only award-winning estate outside Ethiopia, Kenya and Panama.

2014 WBC runner-up competition bean style

2012, 2013 American Brewers Cup second consecutive Championship Bean style

Top 16 Coffee Reivew winners in 2014

Top 25 of 2014 Coffee Reivew

Top 08 Coffee Reivew of the year 2013

October 2014 Coffee Reivew 95

April 2014 Coffee Reivew 95

August 2013 Coffee Reivew 96

November 2012 Coffee Reivew 96

National Columbia

Production area Valle de Cauca

Altitude 1400-1650m

Variety Pacamara

Treatment of sun exposure

Flavor description: dry aroma with strong aroma of wine and flowers. Sipping with sweet and sour flavors of pineapple, longan, black plum, blackcurrant, passion fruit, blueberry and grape. It is a tropical fruit wine, lively and bright sour beans.

Mirado Manor

Mirado Manor is famous for producing high-quality coffee and is located in the southernmost Pitalito (Pitalito) region of Whelan, a famous Colombian region. The coffee here has the flavor of nuts, chocolate and caramel, as well as the right acidity and good palatability. Elkin Guzman, the owner of the garden, is also known as a pioneer in the coffee planting industry, who is quite attentive and professional in planting, harvesting and handling raw coffee beans.

Oak Manor

The Oak Manor is located in the Cauca Valley province of Colombia. in the 1970s, the owner's son, Galvis, began to take over the estate and greatly improve the disease resistance of coffee trees, so that the quality of coffee has steadily improved. In addition, the average altitude of Oak Manor is 1880m, and the temperature difference between day and night at high altitude makes the coffee honey sweet and juicy, which also makes the coffee beans here have rich flavor and high sweetness of tropical fruit.