Regions and harvest.
Follow each coffee back through its department and municipality to the hillside and people behind it.
The house sources here Variety home ground
Huila
A mountainous department in southern Colombia, and the country's largest coffee-growing region. The opening book runs through Gigante and Pitalito.
Picks April to June and September to December. See the calendar ↓
Gigante
- GeshaWashed · Proposed
- Pink BourbonWashed · Proposed
- ChirosoAnaerobic natural · Proposed
Pitalito
- GeshaAnaerobic washed · Proposed
- Pink BourbonAnaerobic washed · Proposed
- OmbligónAnaerobic natural · Proposed
- ChirosoAnaerobic natural · Proposed
- SL28Anaerobic washed · Proposed
When each department picks.
Colombia picks twice a year. Most departments take a main crop in one half and a smaller pass, the MitacaThe second, smaller harvest of the year. Most Colombian departments pick a main crop and a mitaca, so one hillside can offer fresh coffee twice.More →, in the other. The months are The federationThe Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, the growers' body since 1927. It sets the export grades, runs Cenicafé and publishes the harvest calendars.More →'s, by department; towns inside one run earlier or later. Each lot's own CosechaHarvest, and the harvest year a lot belongs to. A Colombian cosecha is named for the year it was picked.More → is on its lot record.
October. Huila, Antioquia and Risaralda are picking the main crop; Quindío town by town; Cundinamarca and Cauca are between harvests.Choose a month
| Department | ||||||||||||
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| Huila | ||||||||||||
| In the book from Huila | Gesha · Pink Bourbon · Ombligón · Chiroso · SL28 | |||||||||||
| Cundinamarca | ||||||||||||
| Antioquia | ||||||||||||
| Quindío* | ||||||||||||
| Cauca | ||||||||||||
| Risaralda | ||||||||||||
Main crop Mitaca, the smaller pass Split by town This month The house sources here
* Quindío picks in both halves of the year, town by town, so no single month is the department's main crop.
