About
Coffee Expression Café Granja La Esperanza’s iconic Cerro Azul Geisha; showcasing crisp floral and citrus aromatics, and a delicate tea-like cup.
Producer We have visited CGLE and Las Margaritas many times, and have worked with their coffees for the past 10 years.
100g (5.3oz) - Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso
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.
Technical Data
Producer Café Granja La Esperanza
Region Valle del Cauca
Altitude 2000 masl
Varietal Geisha
Process Washed
Harvest February 2024
Shipping & Delivery
· Free shipping on US orders above $79 and on orders above $99 to Mexico and Canada
· Ships within 1-3 days from Brooklyn, New York
· Coffee is roasted to order
Cerro Azul
This is the tenth year we have purchased Cerro Azul, the coffee that our baristas Sonja Zweidick, Dane Oliver and most recently Victor Kristensen 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 of the most incredible aromatics we have come across in coffee.
Clean acidity, intense and distinct flavours, and some of the most incredible aromatics we have come across in coffee.
Café Granja La Esperanza
Cerro Azul was chosen by the experts at Granja as a perfect location for the development of ultra 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.
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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.
This lot has gone through a double fermentation, similar to many of Granja’s washed lots, first fermented in closed tanks for 20 hours before de-pulping and a further fermentation of 35 hours in open tanks. Finally, the parchment coffee is washed and dried slowly in mechanical driers.
Washed Geisha
This leads to an excellent balance between the heavier sweetness generated by the long fermentation, and the clean and transparent feel that the washed process allows us to maintain. This is the quintessential Cerro Azul Geisha, with crisp white floral and citrus aromas followed by a dense sugary sweetness, crisp peach and white tea in the cup.
The Washed and Natural Cerro Azul both showcase the floral aromatics characteristic of the Geisha, yet each offers a distinctly unique expression. Discover more about the Natural Cerro Azul by following the link below.
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