COLOMBIA EDWIN ZAMBRANO
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TASTING NOTES: ORANGE JUICE, PINEAPPLE, STRAWBERRY, CACAO
A 2024 Good Food Award Winner and Coffee Review High Scorer (93), this stellar, naturally processed coffee from Edwin Zambrano (pictured below, right), is a labor of love. Every year, Edwin selects the best of the year's coffee cherries to create this award-winning micro-lot. A few years ago, Edwin and his wife took over the family farm from his mother, Dońa Nohora (pictured below, left). However, attention to detail as well as pursuit of excellence are clearly shared values between mother to son.
To amplify their natural sweetness and intensify their fruitiness, Edwin immerses the coffee cherries in water tanks for over 60 hours. They are then sun-dried on raised beds for 45 days until they are absolutely perfect.
All that attention to detail cultivates a coffee teeming with juicy orange, sweet pineapple, fresh strawberry, and dark chocolate notes. It also reflects the fruit of working with diligence and patience—both of which naturally processed coffees require plenty of in order to have exceptional results.
Sourced Through Azahar Coffee
Finca Buenavista is part of the Azahar Coffee family of coffee farms, an organization working throughout Colombia to bring together producers of the highest quality. Through their hard work, they are changing the landscape of Colombia by bringing necessary resources, enabling full traceability, and providing direct trade access to hundreds of farmers such as Edwin Zambrano.
COFFEE INFORMATION
Country: Colombia
Region: Huila
Producer: Edwin Zambrano
Altitude: 1,700 meters
Varietals: Castillo, Colombia
Processing: Natural
Net Weight: 340g / 12oz
COFFEE REVIEW WRITEUP
Blind Assessment: Fruit-forward, crisply tropical. Strawberry guava, baking chocolate, lemon verbena, fresh-cut oak, brown sugar in aroma and cup. Sweet in structure with balanced, lively acidity; plush, syrupy mouthfeel. Crisply cocoa-toned finish with undertones of lemon verbena.
Notes: Produced by Edwin Zambrano of Finca Buenavista from trees of the Castillo and Colombia varieties of Arabica, and processed by the natural method (dried in the whole fruit). Joe Bean Roasters is a specialty retail and wholesale coffee roaster based in Rochester, New York.
The Bottom Line: An inviting, cleanly fruit-toned, natural-processed Colombia cup with a crisp chocolate throughline.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- 2024 Good Food Awards Winner
- 2022 Coffee Review: Score of 93
Through our Give Back Program, we've partnered with the Bridge Project of NY. Every time you purchase coffee, 1% goes directly to uplifting young mothers and babies.
Brewing Tips
Use Filtered Water
Contaminants and chemicals in your water can make your coffee taste muddy, and they can also be harsh on your equipment. Using filtered (but not distilled) water helps your coffee taste clean, bright, and naturally sweet. And while there are a lot of expensive water filters on the market, we find that an inexpensive, basic carbon filter does a great job filtering water for coffee brewing.
Grind Fresh
We all love the smell of freshly ground coffee but all that beautiful aroma should be going into your cup and not just into the air. That is why we recommend grinding your coffee immediately before brewing so that all that goodness isn’t lost. The sooner you use your coffee after grinding, the more flavorful your cup will be preventing it from tasting stale and flat. And for best grinding results, we highly recommend using a quality burr grinder.
Coffee to Water Ratio
The amount of coffee beans you use can have a big impact on taste. Too much coffee, and the cup can taste heavy and sour. Too little coffee, and the cup can taste thin and bitter. We recommend using a 1:16 ratio by weight, 60g of coffee for every 1,000g of water which is about 2 Tbsp of coffee for every 8oz of water. Our preference is to use a scale to weigh coffee and water for accuracy and consistency, all of which can make a big difference.
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