Bolivia Los Rodrigues Batian

18 GBP

In The Cup This natural process Batian from Los Rodriguez in Bolivia is packed with juicy dark fruit flavours, led by blackberry, black grape and stewed plum. Sweet milk chocolate and ripe peach bring balance and sweetness, while gentle black tea notes add a clean, refreshing edge. The body is thick and syrupy, giving the coffee a rich, satisfying texture that lingers long after the last sip. The Story Pedro Rodriguez runs his farms with his daughter Daniela, and son Pablo under their company ‘Agricafe’. Their business is committed to preserving Bolivia’s coffee production, which had been in decline for the last couple of decades. Yields were falling due to outdated farming practices, lack of government support, as well as a wave of Coffee Leaf Rust disease in 2008 which devastated much of Latin America’s coffee farms. Many farmers opted to stop growing coffee in favour of other crops. Concerned that Bolivian coffee production would cease altogether, Pedro started cultivating coffee on his own plantation in 2012. Later, the Rodriguez family created their ‘Sol de la Mañana’ programme, which helped other farms learn and adopt better farming techniques such as pruning, cherry picking and fertilizing. Their La Llama farm is their highest-altitude farm, named as a homage to a llama they encountered when they first looked to purchase the land.

Origin

Bolivia Los Rodriguez

Process

natural

Varietal

Batian