Caturra

Producer: Gabriel Narvaez

Farm: Finca El Aguacate

Origin: Colombia

Region: Nariño

Altitude: 2285 masl

Varietal: Caturra

Process: Extended Fermentation Washed

Fermentation: 48h Whole Cherry · 120h De-Pulped

Drying: 20 Days Covered Raised Beds

Gabriel Narvaez has managed Finca El Aguacate with his family for over 15 years. The farm sits at 2285masl in Arboleda, Nariño, Colombia. They grow additional crops like corn, yucca, and beans to make a living and provide necessary shade for their coffee plants. Gabriel doesn’t use chemical fertilizers or herbicides, only organic fertilizer twice a year to aid their plants yield, preserving the soil and environmental conditions on El Aguacate. 

Info provided to us by our importer.

This Caturra variety is picked when the coffee cherries are ripe, placed in clean sacks to ferment for 48 hours, then de-pulped and fermented in tanks for up to 120 hours. The coffee is then thoroughly washed and sorted by hand before drying on raised beds for 20 days. 

Source: Apex Coffee Importers

FOB: $12.60/kg USD

We Payed: $23.22/kg CAD

Cost After Roasting: $26.69/kg CAD

* all numbers are based on the information we have available to us.

* please note, this does not include the costs associated with running our business.

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