Familia Gomez, Colombia

Mandarin, chardonnay & butterscotch

Tasting Notes

Roast Level: Light
Process: 24 hours fermentation & dried on parabolic beds - Fully Washed
Varietal: Caturra
Roaster's Notes: This coffee has an interesting chardonnay body paired with juicy mandarin and a butterscotch sweetness, along with a slight acidity typical of the region.

Farm Info

Producer: Familia Gomez
Region: Inzá, Cauca
Altitude: 1,990 masl

Background Information

When her husband passed away over a decade ago, Isuara Martinez wasn’t quite sure what she was going to do about maintaining the family’s 6 hectare coffee farm, located in the prime coffee-growing land in the sub-municipality of Tabor in Timaná, Huila. She, herself, was already in her 50s and wasn’t up to all the work required to continue farming high quality coffee. In a development unusual in rural Colombia today, where small farms are increasingly subdivided into ever smaller parcels as they are passed onto the children of a farm’s owner, Doña Isuara’s children decided to help manage their family’s collectively.

Some 10 years on, Familia Gomez is a nice example of how coffee growing can be passed on through generations in rural Colombia. Currently, four brothers and sisters and their families (last name Gomez, after their father) manage the farm, and Doña Isuara manages her own small plot, despite her current age of over 65 years old. Alvaro, Juan, Gloria and Fabiola now live in different houses on the property, each taking care of different plots but wet processing their days’ pickings together in the farm´s old and original wet mill.