Café Granja La Esperanza’s iconic Cerro Azul Geisha; showcasing crisp floral and citrus aromatics, with ripe stone fruit in the cup.
About
Coffee Expression A returning favourite; the Cerro Azul Geisha showcases the white florals and aromatic citrus we so enjoy in this iconic varietal.
Producer We have visited CGLE and Cerro Azul many times, and have worked with their coffees for over a decade.
Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso
Technical Data
Producer Café Granja La Esperanza
Region Valle del Cauca
Altitude 2000 masl
Varietal Geisha
Process Honey
Harvest November 2025
Brewing Advice
Water is one of the most critical components of an excellent coffee experience. We recommend using mineral water of a soft Total Dissolved Solids count, ideally below 150 ppm.
Rested coffee During the resting process, harsh and astringent flavors, which can even be perceived as a ‘roast’ character, soften out, allowing a clearer and brighter expression of the coffee’s character to shine.
We recommend resting our coffees for at least 10 days after the roast date, and we often find excellent results, especially for particularly dense coffees, beyond 6 weeks.
Brewing Our straightforward approach to coffee carries over into brewing. We recommend our roasted coffee for all brew methods, regardless of whether it is immersion, percolation or espresso. We believe that there is one correct way to roast a single coffee, roasting lightly, in such a way as to release its innate qualities and showcase its quality. Learn more about different brewing techniques and specific brew guides here.
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Cerro Azul Geisha
This is the twelfth year we have purchased Cerro Azul, a coffee several of our baristas have taken to the world stage, in both Barista and Brewer’s competitions. Cafe Granja are intimately familiar with the care and attention the Geisha plant needs, they were one of the first to bring it to Colombia, having previously owned a farm in Panama, the adopted home of this lauded varietal. This translates into their excellent work at the farm level; this coffee is a true representation of the potential of the Geisha varietal in Colombia. Clean acidity, intense and distinct flavours, and some incredible aromatics. Cerro Azul was chosen by the experts at Granja as a perfect location for the development of high quality Geisha cherries.
The location of the farm is further southwest in the Cauca Valley than Potosí and Las Margaritas, closer to the state capital of Cali, and to Colombia’s Pacific coast. The cool breeze from the Pacific combined with the very high altitude mean that the trees have to fight low average temperatures and large day-night swings in temperatures to survive, concentrating energy into their cherries as sugar. This leads to a high level of both sweetness and intensity of flavour in the final cup.
Café Granja La Esperanza
This incredible quality of raw material has to be treated with great care at each further stage, in order to preserve the potential created in the field. Luckily the team at Cafe Granja La Esperanza consistently take care of these stages of the process with aplomb. Geisha cherries from Cerro Azul are taken down the mountain to the La Esperanza farm to be de-pulped, before heading to mechanical driers for 48 hours, then completing drying slowly and evenly on raised beds over approximately 4 weeks. This lot maintains the crisp white Geisha florals, backed up by notes of rich apricot and oolong tea.
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