Origin: Huila, Colombia

Producer: Luz Dary Polo

Process: Washed

Varieties: Bourbon Aji

Altitude: 1640masl

Importer: Shared Source

Transparency: Shared Source paid 4,500,000 COP per carga, and we paid $9.20/lb + shipping & brokerage into Canada.

Roast: Light

Notes: Creamsicle, Grapefruit, Orange Blossom, Apple Juice ( not from concentrate )

We are so excited to be offering this super special Bourbon Aji from Luz Dary Polo for our anniversary release. It feels super amazing to have Luz Dary on the menu as we roll into our second year roasting. Her Caturra was the FIRST batch of coffee we properly roasted on our Probat, and we're even more in love with her coffee now then we were back then.

Bourbon Aji is a very special varietal sprouting up in Colombia. Being treated similar to Geisha, it is a high scoring coffee that is very expressive and possesses a lot of sweetness. 

She treats her Bourbon Aji with the same process as her other coffees, and the extra care really makes this coffee shine, read more below, and we hope you enjoy this super special cup!

Process:

Luz Dary starts with ripe cherries, and floats them in water to remove the under- and over-ripe cherries. From there, she carefully stores the cherries in a sealed Grain Pro bags, and they begin their fermentation process within the cherry.

After 40 hours of this initial “cherry-ferment”, she de-pulps the coffee, and leaves it to ferment in a sealed plastic barrel for a low-oxygen environment fermentation - up to 60 additional hours of fermentation after the initial cherry ferment.

From there, she washes just once and takes the coffee to dry on her covered raised bed. During peak harvest seasons, she pays a significantly higher price to pickers, which allows her to ask that they only pick ripe cherries.

About Luz Dary & Los Guácharos 

45-year old Luz Dary works on her 3 hectare farm in the township of Villa Fátima, outside of Bruselas, Huila. There she has 4,000 caturra trees and 1,000 pink bourbon trees, on her 3 hectare farm, and she recently renovated 7,000 Colombia trees, replacing the older trees with the “bourbon ají” varietal.

Luz Dary is a member of the “ Los Guácharos association “ - a small group of independent coffee farmers that share technical know-how, and collectively commercialize their coffee to sell at higher volumes.

They are a quality focused group of producers in Southern Huila, where they’re currently working towards converting to fully organic agriculture, making their own fertilizers, fungicides, and building elaborate water filter systems to minimize water waste during processing.

Luz Dary makes her own fertilizer she calls Super Magro, made of organic minerals, waste products, molasses, bone ash, and manure fermented with microorganisms collected from virgin soils, and it’s used as a fertilizer and a protectant from diseases. Very much like some very fancy Natural Wine producers following old ways.