• Producers Edilma Piedrahita
• Attributes Caturra & tabi variety
• Origin Southern Huila, Colombia
• Profile loads of cacao and tropical fruit, spiked punch acidity

Edilma Piedrahita is the leader of Los Guacharos – our favourite producer group in Colombia, and the source of many of our most treasured profiles. Edilma is a great leader. Her effusive energy has buoyed us many times in the back of pickup trucks on long drives and we love her for her full-hearted commitment to her community. Edilma shares our belief that steps towards sustainable production are essential for the future of coffee.

We were super happy to be able to visit with Edilma and the Guacharos producers in June and also in September 2022, and in February 2023. And happier still to be able to undertake some fermentation experiments with Edilma especially. This mix of caturra and tabi lots is a traditional washed process – first it’s floated to remove over and under ripe cherrries, then depulped prior to a 42 hour fermentation in tanks, without water. We’re always grateful to Edilma for providing coffees that consistently and impressively grace our menu.

Roasted for espresso brewing.

We ship coffee as whole beans by default, if you need your coffee ground, please let us know at the checkout.

Pricing transparency: We purchase parchment coffee directly from Edilma via the group she champions (Los Guacharos, with whom we have been working since 2016) and pesos are transferred straight to the association’s bank account upon receipt of parchment at our chosen mill. We paid $2,800,000 pesos per carga (125 kg of parchment coffee, this is the unit farmers sell their coffee in) for the caturra part, and $2,750,000 pesos per carga for the tabi part. This lot was harvested in January 2023 and arrived Melbourne May 2023.