El Paraiso - Washed

Tasting Notes: Brown Sugar, Red Fruits, Mandarin

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1300-1450 MASL

Varietals: Castillo

About the Origin Farm of Arturo Arango

Arturo Arango has been producing specialty coffees since 2015 at El Paraíso, a 25-hectare farm in Barcelona, Quindío, Colombia, at 1,300 meters above sea level. When he bought the farm, most of the trees were over 25 years old, so he renewed them with Costa Rica and Java varieties and introduced other crops like yucca and lemon. Inspired by the Specialty Coffee movement during his master’s in Agroindustries in Argentina, Arturo applies careful farming practices focused on plant health, weed control, and disease prevention.

This coffee is harvested by hand, selecting only perfectly ripe cherries, which are packaged in GrainPro bags and transported to La Pradera for processing. At the mill, cherries undergo meticulous quality control, including hand-sorting and flotation to remove low-density or defective beans, before a 30-hour underwater fermentation that develops a complex, balanced flavor with bright acidity and natural sweetness. After fermentation, the cherries are pulped, washed, and carefully dried on raised beds or in the Elbas drying station for larger lots, with moisture carefully controlled at 9.5– Water used in processing is recycled and naturally filtered through vetiver grass beds, 11%. ensuring a sustainable, environmentally responsible operation.