The three major estates of Colombia.

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At present, Colombia is the world's largest producer of washed Arabica, the second largest producer of Arabica and the third largest producer of coffee, with an annual output equal to about 1/3 of that of Brazil.

However, this huge producing country is not what I thought there are too many commercial manors to form large-scale production. On the contrary, 95% of the estates in Colombia are small estates, with a large number, and most of them are planted with less than 5 hectares, almost entirely by artificial production, in the form of smallholder cultivation and family trade, which has both advantages and disadvantages. but there is no doubt that it allows us to drink more diverse traits or differences.

The overall terrain of Colombia is relatively flat, high in the west and low in the east, with an area of 2/3 in the east of the Amazon alluvial plain, and three Cordillera mountains parallel to the east. Colombia's boutique coffee is basically grown on these mountains.

The mountains rise and fall, running from north to south, with different soils, and a very rich microclimate, forming a number of producing areas, large and small, that can grow more than 80 different flavors of coffee, almost any time of the year in Colombia. there are places where ripe coffee fruits are being harvested.

Colombia is the second largest coffee industrial country after Brazil in output. The more famous producing areas are "Metenin", "Marissares", "Bogota" and "Armenia". The coffee beans cultivated are very rich in flavor and stable in quality and price. the internationally renowned high-quality beans are Colombia?. Colombia-Supremo / Colombia? Colombia-Excelso; its taste is characterized by acidity, bitterness and sweetness, and the color of brewed coffee is like brewed wine; it has a unique sour and mellow taste, refreshing in medium baking and ripe in deep roasting, with a faint and unique flavor between them. Fried coffee beans have reduced acidity and full content, and the appearance is larger and more beautiful. In addition to its large output, Columbia can produce everything from low-grade to high-grade products, some of which are rare in the world and taste so mellow that they can not be put down.

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.

Colombian coffee is widely sold and used, mainly because Colombian coffee has a soft and pure taste, and it is very easy to brew coffee beans, so it is very popular in every family and is the best partner for dessert cake. With Colombian coffee, you can enjoy the mellow atmosphere brought by bar without coffee. Whether it is simple black coffee or Colombian coffee formula coffee is a good choice.