Country: Colombia
Region: Antioquia
Farm: Magdalena
Altitude: 1400m - 1800m
Variety: Various
Process: Washed
Producer: Various
Harvest: 2024
A very balanced and sweet coffee, with juicy and caramel notes. Medium acidity and body with a pleasant mouthfeel and a 70% cocoa and apricot aftertaste.
This coffee comes from the largest estate in Colombia, based around the beautiful area of Salgar in Antioquia. The Green Coffee Company was established in 2017 with the mission of changing the dynamics of Colombian production using innovation, experience, and quality to bring consistent coffees to customers around the world.
The total size of the estate is now 4000ha, built through the acquisition of 40 estates where they are able to implement total control over all aspects of production, from agronomy to post-harvest processing and export. GCC has invested heavily in technology and has two centralized wet mills with the capacity to process 360,000 kg of cherries per day. These wet mills use advanced cherry color sorting technology and electronic tracking throughout the process, which has helped them reduce the water volume needed to produce coffee by over 21 million liters.
At GCC, special attention is also given to the environment and social conditions, which are part of the supply chain philosophy. On the estates, they actively work to protect the watershed by planting over 26,000 non-coffee trees on the land. They manage 55% of these lands and have 153 hectares of reserved forest. They have planted over 2 million Castillo and Colombia coffee plants on land that was previously used for livestock production. In the nursery, they have completely eliminated the use of plastics.
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