GUAVA BANANA | Caturra | Hybrid Natural | 250g

Caturra

This coffee was planted at El Vergel back in 2016, there is both green and bronze tip Gesha (which have subtle differences in flavour), and 2 further variations of each have been discovered and categorised too. The original seeds are rumoured to be from the infamous Hartmann Estate, one of Panama’s finest producers of Gesha, this heritage and level of quality is immediately obvious.

Much like the slopes of Panama, El Vergel Estate sits on an inactive volcano in the mountains of Tolima. Planted at the highest point of the estate which is around 1800masl, the soil and climate here provides excellent nutrition and conditions for Gesha to flourish.

The beautiful floral attributes and complexity that Gesha is famous for, tend to be most expressive when the coffee is grown at high altitudes, these growing conditions extend the cherries maturation time, developing more sugars.

When asked how a coffee ended up being called Guava Banana, Elias said there was a story about the mis-pronunciation of a South American fruit called Gaunábana. But he also told us about how different coffees invoke certain feelings and can often be visualised as colours, as well as flavours. The brothers draw a lot of inspiration in these visualistations for the names of their coffees.

Situated beside the processing mill, the yellow and red caturra were planted in 2016 and 2018. 

250 g