Colombia La Union

This organic, fair trade, light roast coffee is bright, sweet, juicy, and easy drinking. We're enjoying its sparkling acidity and sweet clean finish. Delicious hot or iced, this balanced cup of coffee is sure to please your taste buds.

• Grower: FUDAM
• Region: Nariño
• Process: Washed
• Elevation: 1500-2200 MASL
• Varieties: Castillo, Caturra, Colombia
• Certifications: Fair Trade, Organic, Rainforest Alliance
• Tasting Notes: sweet, juicy, berry, apple

From our Importer Cafe Imports: 

Fundación Agraria y Ambiental Para el Desarrollo Sostentible (FUDAM) is a
300-member association of organic-certified (and Rainforest Alliance–certified)
growers that was founded in the year 2000 by just seven producers who shared a
vision of sustainable agriculture as well as environmental protection and
development. This group of smallholders lives in and around the small municipality
of La Unión in Nariño, where the terrain differs greatly from in other coffee-growing
areas like Cauca: Instead of walking up from the town to the farms, as elsewhere,
here the towns are at such high elevation that the farms are typically lower
elevation, surrounded by high peaks and rough road. FUDAM's membership
believes firmly in the principles of sustainability that drove them to band together in
the first place. When asked recently why the group continues to farm organically
despite mounting pressure to rely on chemical inputs, the association’s leadership
explained, "This is just how we live, these are our values and our way of life.” The
farmers pick their coffee during the day and de-pulp it in the afternoon, typically
fermenting the lots for 16–24 hours dry. The coffees are generally washed two or
three times before being dried either in small "casa elbas," mechanical dryers, or
parabolic dryers. The mechanical drying takes between 25–40 hours, while the
other drying structures can take up to 15 days.