Chiroso.
Deep colour. Sharp edges.
Chiroso cherries
Cherry flotationChiroso
Everything the house knows about this lot, from the hillside to the bag.
- Lot
- OV-26-005
- Variety
- Chiroso
- Selection
- Rare beans
- Process
- Anaerobic natural
- The millTwo mills handle a lot. The wet mill on the farm depulps, ferments and dries. The dry mill near the port hulls, sorts and grades for export.More →
- 70 hours oxidation, 48 hours anaerobic fermentation, thermal shock, yeast inoculation, then mechanical drying
- DepartmentColombia's thirty-two regions. Huila, Cauca and Antioquia are departments. A lot record names the department first, then the municipality, then the vereda.More →
- Huila
- MunicipalityThe town and the land around it, one tier below the department. Gigante and Pitalito are municipalities of Huila.More →
- Pitalito
- Grower
- Jose Guerrero
- Altitude
- 1,600 m
- Cup scoreA score out of 100 on the SCA cupping form. Specialty begins at 80. On a lot record the score always names who cupped it: the exporter, the house or a Q grader.More →
- 88 · Exporter's cupping
- PackingHow a lot is sealed for the voyage: a hermetic liner or vacuum pack inside the box, which keeps air and moisture off the green coffee.More →
- 12 kg vacuum packs
- Status
- Proposed for the first shipment.
Alpine Imports Limited trading as Oro Verde.
The largest coffee town in Huila, near the head of the Magdalena valley. Long-established smallholder farming between roughly 1,400 and 1,900 m.
Urrao sits high in Antioquia, where farmers grew a long-beaned tree they called Caturra Chiroso. It was no Caturra. Genetics places it among Ethiopian lines that reached Colombian soil and stayed.
The trade learned its name in 2020, when a WashedDepulped within hours of picking, held in a tank until the mucilage loosens, washed clean and dried. The method Colombia built its name on.More → Chiroso took the national Cup of ExcellenceColombia's national green coffee competition and auction, held since 2005. Lots are cupped blind by national and international juries, and the scores are public.More →. A coffee inseparable from its place.
More on Chiroso →Ask about this lot.
Email Gio with roughly how many kilos you'd like, or ask for a 200 g sample. No account and no commitment. What roasters ask for decides what comes in on the first shipment.
Or write to info@alpineimports.co.nz. I reply within a working day.