ABSTRACT - FINCA MILAN | COLOMBIA | NITRO MACERATION
A bold and distinctive coffee, ideal for filter brewing and adventurous espresso.
Expect a vibrant and expressive profile:
- Intense tropical fruit notes, led by passionfruit
- Bright, juicy acidity
- Layers of sweetness with a clean, structured finish
A bold and distinctive coffee, ideal for filter brewing and adventurous espresso.
Rodrigo Sánchez Valencia
Finca Monteblanco, Huila, Colombia
High in the mountains of Vereda La Tocora, overlooking Pitalito, sits Finca Monteblanco, a family-run farm managed by Rodrigo Sánchez. Continuing a legacy started by his grandfather, Rodrigo has developed Monteblanco into one of Colombia’s most innovative coffee producers.
The 18-hectare farm is perched along a hillside, with coffee planted across the slopes and the wet mill and drying beds located at the summit. Here, tradition and experimentation work hand in hand, with Rodrigo constantly refining processing techniques to push quality and flavour boundaries.
Process: Passionfruit Co-Ferment Washed
This lot showcases Monteblanco’s progressive approach to fermentation.
A cultured fermentation base is first developed using selected microorganisms, including lactobacillus and saccharomyces cerevisiae. This culture is infused with passion fruit, cholupa, and panela, then fermented for around 190 hours to stabilise sugars and pH.
Once harvested, ripe cherries are floated to remove defects, pulped, and transferred into sealed tanks. The prepared culture is then introduced, and the coffee undergoes a further 150 hours of controlled fermentation, with careful monitoring of pH and Brix levels to ensure precision.
Drying begins with 2–3 days in sunlight, followed by 15–18 days on shaded beds, allowing the coffee to slowly stabilise and develop its complex, fruit-forward profile.
Innovation & Craft
Finca Monteblanco represents a new wave of Colombian coffee, where deep-rooted tradition meets cutting-edge processing. Rodrigo’s work focuses on enhancing the inherent qualities of the coffee through controlled fermentation, resulting in expressive, high-impact flavour profiles while maintaining clarity and balance.
Expect a vibrant and expressive profile:
- Intense tropical fruit notes, led by passionfruit
- Bright, juicy acidity
- Layers of sweetness with a clean, structured finish
A bold and distinctive coffee, ideal for filter brewing and adventurous espresso.
Rodrigo Sánchez Valencia
Finca Monteblanco, Huila, Colombia
High in the mountains of Vereda La Tocora, overlooking Pitalito, sits Finca Monteblanco, a family-run farm managed by Rodrigo Sánchez. Continuing a legacy started by his grandfather, Rodrigo has developed Monteblanco into one of Colombia’s most innovative coffee producers.
The 18-hectare farm is perched along a hillside, with coffee planted across the slopes and the wet mill and drying beds located at the summit. Here, tradition and experimentation work hand in hand, with Rodrigo constantly refining processing techniques to push quality and flavour boundaries.
Process: Passionfruit Co-Ferment Washed
This lot showcases Monteblanco’s progressive approach to fermentation.
A cultured fermentation base is first developed using selected microorganisms, including lactobacillus and saccharomyces cerevisiae. This culture is infused with passion fruit, cholupa, and panela, then fermented for around 190 hours to stabilise sugars and pH.
Once harvested, ripe cherries are floated to remove defects, pulped, and transferred into sealed tanks. The prepared culture is then introduced, and the coffee undergoes a further 150 hours of controlled fermentation, with careful monitoring of pH and Brix levels to ensure precision.
Drying begins with 2–3 days in sunlight, followed by 15–18 days on shaded beds, allowing the coffee to slowly stabilise and develop its complex, fruit-forward profile.
Innovation & Craft
Finca Monteblanco represents a new wave of Colombian coffee, where deep-rooted tradition meets cutting-edge processing. Rodrigo’s work focuses on enhancing the inherent qualities of the coffee through controlled fermentation, resulting in expressive, high-impact flavour profiles while maintaining clarity and balance.
Details
Colombia
Risaralda
Finca Milan
Nitro Fermentation
Caturra
1600 MASL
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