Floripondio Natural Carbonic - Los Rodriguez ( Espresso Roasted )

COUNTRY: Bolivia

DEPARTMENT: Santa Cruz

PROVINCE: Florida

TOWN: Samaipata

ELEVATION: 1,710m above sea level

VARIETY: Batian

PROCESSING: Natural Carbonic (48hr Ferment)

FARM OWNER: Los Rodríguez Family

This 100% Batian nano-lot comes from Floripondio, one of four farms owned and operated by the Rodríguez family in Bolivia’s Samaipata region.

Pickers from the Samaipata community carefully handpick the coffee at Floripondio every day during the harvest. Selective picking is extremely important for special micro-lots like this one, to ensure the sweetest cup. The Rodríguez family has found that harvesting the very ripest (almost purple) cherries result in the most complexity and distinction in the coffee.

Cherries for this lot were delivered to Agricafe’s state of the art mill El Fuerte in the evening. After being inspected and weighed, the coffee cherry was carefully sorted by weight using water, and floaters were removed. Following this, the coffee was disinfected, in a similar process used for wine grapes, and then placed whole, with their skin to ferment under controlled temperature and pH conditions in the family’s brand new custom-built stainless steel tanks for 48 hours. Shutting the containers allows CO2 to build up, increasing the temperature and catalysing a process of intracellular fermentation. The team at El Fuerte made sure the lid remained shut for the full period of fermentation, to ensure no oxygen touched the cherries and that the punch-like, boozy aroma remained trapped inside.

The fermented coffee cherries were then laid out to dry on patio for 48-72 hours, and then finished off in one of Buena Vista’s ‘stationary box’ (or coco) dryers, until it reached 11.5% humidity in a process that takes around five days.

Suitable for Espresso Machine, Mokka Pot, Stove Top, French press, and Filter brewing methods

Recommended Espresso Machine,Mokka Pot,French press

**NOTE FOR DELIVERY** An order placing BEFORE 2 PM will arrange on next day delivery. An order AFTER 2 PM will deliver on the next following days.