Jairo Arcila - Caturra [natural] filter roast

This is a delicious, juicy & syrupy natural from Jairo. It has flavours of cherry, papaya & jaffa's.... There is a little funk as you grind but not enough to earn a "funk" sticker.

Roasted 18 NOV 2025

    About the farmer(s)

    Jairo Arcila - Caturra [natural] — Colombia

    This coffee was grown by Jairo at his farm Santa Monica. The cherries from these Caturra shrubs were hand-picked at optimum ripeness, then transported on the same day to "La Pradera" [a mill owned by Jairo's son Carlos] for processing. The coffee cherries were floated and hand-sorted to remove defects & then dried on raised "African" beds in temperature-controlled conditions until the moisture was reduced to around 11%.

    • region Quindio
    • farm/farmer Santa Monica
    • altitude 1450-1500 Meters
    • crop 2025
    • cultivar Caturra
    • process Natural

    This lot is 100% Caturra, a mutation of Bourbon discovered in Brasil in 1937. The plant is a dwarf so it can be planted close together resulting in more production per hectare. Caturra has good flavour characteristics but is susceptible to disease.