Los Magnifícos Sidra - Colombia

Bright and candy-like. Tasting like lychee, star fruit and sweet green grapes.

Origin: Colombia
Region: San Agustin, Huila
Producer: Various producers from the Monkaaba group: Orlando Quinayas, Diana
Quinayas, Jose Omar Muñoz, Rovira Salamanca, Stiven Hoyos
Elevation: 1600 - 1989 masl
Variety: Sidra
Process: Washed 

(Processing varies between producers, and each producer delivers their parchment to the Monkaaba bodega, where it is then tasted, analyzed, and chosen for this lot)

Roasted for: Filter

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We source this lot through our partners at Semilla and Monkaaba, and as always the way they work simply makes sense, serving a true purpose while also ensuring incredibly high quality. 

This lot is designed to ensure that small lots of higher-quality coffee are still able to be purchased despite their size. The vast majority of the producers involved in this blend manage very small plots, and as a result, are often delivering tiny amounts of coffee.

In the instance that they have more land, this allows Semilla to take small amounts that might come from a single pass and avoid waiting for a lot of size to be delivered from a single producer, in which time the quality might suffer. 

It’s a sad reality still of the global coffee system - and especially in a massive producing state like Huila - that the logistics and management around small lots are too costly or time-consuming to make economic sense for buyers. As a result, it’s not only that the quality must be high, it’s that a smallholder must have the requisite quantity as well to earn the higher prices they deserve.

Los Magnificos seeks to serve the purpose of opening opportunities and giving smallholders a steady ground to build from as they make the challenging steps of improving their post-harvest processing practices.  Even in small amounts, the revenue earned makes a difference, but more importantly, it opens a place for community, dialogue, and learning that is normally not offered to such smallholders. The result is often a holding pattern where buyers can benefit, and smallholders are motivated or incentivized to improve and grow.