SWEET VALLEY, COLOMBIA

17.25 GBP

Location: Café Granja La Esperanza, Trujillo Landed: December 2025 Altitude: 1,400 - 1,860 masl Varietal: Castillo, Caturra & Colombia Process: Natural Flavour profile: Red apple, strawberry laces & winey Category: Limited & Experimental Free shipping over £32. Buy 2x250g bags and get 50%off your third one. In 2024 we had the pleasure of sharing with you a couple of wonderful lots from Cafe Granja La Esperanza, in a hybrid washed Geisha from Las Margaritas, and another hybrid washed but this time a Pink Bourbon from Potosi. After all the great feedback on these, we wanted to bring back another stunner from CGLE, but ideally one that was a touch more accessible, allowing us to buy more, and for more of you to be able to enjoy drinking the stuff! Incomes Sweet Valley last year in 2025, and we couldn't be happier to know bring it back for a second year in a row. Sweet Valley is a collaboration between DRW and Cafe Granja La Esperanza (CGLE), which sees a lighter fruitier field blend between their Potosi farm and immediate neighbours. Cherry is fermented for 15 hours at a controlled temperature before being moved to a dehumidifier for another 72 hours until fully dried. It is then dehulled and bagged for export. Expect a fruit forward cup, one with a tangy wine like acidity, syrupy sweet red fruits with a candied mouthwatering nature and a big body that leans into jammy strawberry. ABOUT POTOSI The Potosi farm was the first farm owned by Don Rigoberto's family. The farm that started it all, where Blanca Ligia Correa and Juan Antonio Herrera worked. In 1945 they introduced Yellow Bourbon, Red Bourbon and Caturra to the existing Typica and Café Granja La Esperanza was born. 22 hectares of the farm is forest land, and with the 52 hectares dedicated to coffee, it’s the biggest farm in the area. It lies across the sweet, misty valley from Las Margaritas and handles the dry milling for both farms. The three mechanical driers that it is also home to set fire to the farmhouse in 2018 (no one was hurt) and earned them the nickname of Tres Dragones, or Three Dragons. Experimentation is also carried out on the farm, currently with some mother/father geisha breeding trials as well as varieties being field tested before larger scale production is carried out Whilst this is not the most wild feeling of farms (that has to go to the nearby Las Margaritas) there is an abundance of nature intertwined with the coffee trees here above the valley so often cloaked in clouds and mist. A number of the plots are given over to further experimentation – the growth of a field of plants or more rather than just a few, and you will find geishas, SL34, CGLE17, Sidra, Tabi, and even some heirloom Yirgacheffe. Pink Bourbon is of course grown here too, seen as first being noted in Colombia coming from somewhere around the Inza region. (In partnership with DRWakefield)

Origin

Colombia Trujillo

Process

natural

Varietal

Castillo, Caturra & Colombia

Altitude

1400 m