Flavour notes: Herbal, floral, red berries & stone fruit
Producer: Tim Wendelboe
Country: Colombia
Region: El Vegon, El Pital, Huila
Process: Washed
Harvest date: May - August 2025
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This particular coffee is a field blend from our cultivar garden / museum where we currently have a few trees of 12 different cultivars that are producing coffee.
For several years we have been harvesting, processing and storing each cultivar individually in order to identify which ones taste the best and produce well. This is of course ongoing work on the farm and the goal is to identify cultivars that are well adapted to our environment and that we want to plant more of.
So far the work has been very insightful and last year we took a decision to plant more of the two different Sudan Rumé cultivars from our museum as they are consistently producing well and have a very good flavour profile in the cup.
Because we only have a few trees of each cultivar we decided to make a field blend from this lot, which practically means we pick cherries from all the different cultivars and mix them together before processing.
Although the flavour profile is very different from our Ethiopian Landrace lot, this coffee has a fun and interesting flavour profile with a lot of cup variations. Sometimes I taste herbal flavours while other brews have tasted more of florals and stone fruits or even red berries and rhubarb.
During the main harvest from May throughout August in 2025 we harvested several small lots from these trees. Each lot was stored in separate air tight bags and thoroughly evaluated and tasted after the harvest. All the best lots were then mixed together and became one lot of 24 kilos of green coffee. The rejected lots with inferior quality was not exported.
We will be roasting this coffee as one batch on our Loring roaster based on our recipe from last year, but will try to tweak the roast profile to make sure it is tasting as clean and vibrant as possible.
Finca El Suelo
Owned and run by Tim Wendelboe, Finca el Suelo is a 7 hectare farm located in El Vegon, in the municipality of El Pital in Huila, Colombia. It is situated on an altitude of 1650 – 1700 masl. next to Finca Tamana.
