Finca El Jardín

This is our first year to work with coffee from the renowned Finca El Jardín and this selection of honey processed Red Bourbon confirms this farms’ reputation for outstanding quality. In the cup we find a juicy, high intensity profile with flavors of tropical fruit, grape and cherry with a candy-like sweetness.

Jorge Elías Rojas is a 4th generation coffee grower in Tolima, Colombia near the town of Planadas. Involved in his family’s farm since he was 13 years old, he eventually inherited part of his father’s land and purchased a parcel from a neighbor to create what is now Finca El Jardín. Jorge had an inclination towards quality and innovation from the beginning, planting his farm with an array of different varieties and developing his own unique processing and drying protocols, efforts that have resulted in multiple Cup of Excellence awards and esteemed recognition amongst producers, roasters and coffee enthusiasts around the world. 

Processing for this lot began with a very strict selection of ripe coffee fruit which is sorted by hand to ensure that immature and overripe fruit is removed. The coffee is placed in sealed tanks for 72 hours, then pulped and fermented again in the same tanks for another 38 hours. Drying begins next, first in a mechanical dryer for 28 hours at a constant temperature of 86 degrees. The coffee is then placed in fique bags (a woven sack made of plant fibers) for 24 hours in a dark place at an average ambient temperature of 68 to 75 degrees and then transferred to a greenhouse for 48 hours at a temperature of around 86 to 93 degrees. The coffee is left to rest for another 24 hours in fique sacks and then once again dried in a mechanical dryer for 48 hours at 100 degrees. The coffee is then cooled, stabilized, and packed in bags for milling and export.

Orders placed Monday - Thursday by 9am will be roasted and shipped the same day. Orders placed after our daily or weekly cutoff will be roasted the next scheduled production day. All online orders are shipped within 24 hours of roasting.