Cafe Granja La Esperanza Potosi Sweet Valley

Café Granja La Esperanza is well known for producing competition-winning coffees. They are known for experimenting by matching processes with varieties to produce unique flavor profiles. Different varieties will respond at differing rates to processing methods. It all began in 1930 when Israel Correa and Carmen Rosa Vega arrived in Valle del Cauca, seeking unoccupied land to start a farm and acquired Potosi. Five farms make up Café Granja La Esperanza – Cerro Azul, Las Margaritas, La Esperanza, Potosi and Hawaii. With 188,725 trees over 52 hectares, the farm is split into 10 lots and grows Sidra, Mandela, San Juan, Castillo, and Colombia. Sweet Valley is a micro-lot, as a natural Colombia landing at a time when fresh crop fruity coffees are harder to come by. The cherry is fermented for 15 hours at a controlled temperature before being moved to a dehumidifier for another 72 hours until fully dried. It is then dehulled and bagged for export.