Coffee Story
Copacabana is one of the colonies in the Caranavi region, with 35 families that belong to the collective. For the majority of their members, coffee is their primary income. Copacabana tends to be more humid, making naturals risky, so washed coffees are far more common. More recently, Agricafé has been collaborating with a pair of wine agronomists who have been helping to share experimental anaerobic processes for washed coffees at the wet mill. During the day, the families pick the ripe cherries, then meet at 5 pm to select and control the best cherries, which are then driven straight to Agricafé's Buena Vista Wet Mill in Caranavi. The cherries are strictly regulated at the mill, and payment is made to the producers.
The Sol de la Manana project continues to nourish female producer opportunities within the Copacabana, giving opportunities not only to new generations of producers with agriculture information to help encourage improving their crops year-over-year but also encouraging new career opportunities for women in other areas of specialty coffee for those who don't maintain the same passion for coffee-growing as their predecessors, such as career opportunities in exporting, marketing and agronomy.
This specific lot is a washed, anaerobic processed blend of cherries produced by three female producers from this collective: Carmelita Aduviri, Juana Gonzales, and Mercedes Condini. They are part of Agricafé's Sol de la mañana mentorship program. The lot itself is a blend of Caturra. Once harvested, the coffee is depulped and stripped of its mucilage. The seeds are then fermented in an oxygen-free environment. This anaerobic fermentation enhances the acids present in the coffee.
