Description
DEPARTAMENT: HUILA
MUNICIPALITY: PALERMO
PRODUCERS: OMAR POLANIA CUELLAR, HENRY GONZÁLEZ SÁNCHEZ
ALTITUDE: 1.580 – 1.750 M.A.S.L
VARIETIES: COLOMBIA, CASTILLO
NOTES: DARK CHOCOLATE, COCOA POWDER AND RAISINS
PRICE PAID PER CARGA: $3.083.849,15
This new edition of Dulce Nocturno returns as the fourth launch in this year’s series of coffees inspired by the sensorial associations our minds create with our palates. Dulce Nocturno, on the darker side of the roasting spectrum, highlights the color of coffee.
Hailing from the granite hillsides and valleys of northwestern Huila, specifically the townships of Lindosa and El Moral, both located in the municipality of Palermo, this new ensemble of micro lots is of the Castillo and Colombia varieties, and were cultivated by Omar Polania and Henry González. The resulting cup has notes of cocoa, raisins, and dark chocolate.
Dulce Nocturno is part of the Proyecto Recolectores or Pickers Project which is run by the Manos al Grano foundation which strives to better the working and living conditions of coffee pickers by paying them a legal wage, with benefits such as health insurance, pension, and social security, by providing training as well as secure housing and meals while they work the cherry harvest on allied and participating farms. We’d like to thank the following pickers for their invaluable participation: Diego Polania, Raúl Caldon, Carlos Vera, Wilson René Lozano, César Castañeda, Juan Camilo González y John Herlinton Rivera.
During the sourcing of this coffee, we utilized the recommendations of the latest Sustainable Coffee Buyer’s Guide* to evaluate the true impact of the price paid to the producers. For this newest addition to our menu, the average price paid per carga (125kg) was COP 3.083.849. At this price point, each producer should be able to make a dignified wage meaning that the workers on the farm also make a real salary.
Dulce Nocturno would not be possible without the collaboration of the countless people who grew the coffee, harvested the cherry, transported the parchment, cupped and quality controlled the green coffee, roasted it and finally packed it up for all of us to enjoy at home. Discover a new, high-quality coffee and enjoy a better coffee for the world.
*The Guide is a tool that strives to end the systematic poverty experienced by smallholders and perpetuated by capitalism by informing green buyers by providing context-driven, regional-specific data about the costs of production and cost of living of producing families. This way, buyers can make more informed decisions about how the prices they pay truly contribute in a sustainable and significant way to the livelihoods and needs of the producers.
