Description
DEPARTAMENT: QUINDÍO
MUNICIPALITY: GÉNOVA
PRODUCER: MANFRED HILLER
ALTITUDE: 1.850
VARIETY: JAVA
NOTES: JASMINE, CHERRY, AND CARAMEL
PRICE PAID PER CARGA: $2’400.000
It is in the town and municipality of Génova, Quindío where Manfred Hiller and his wife Eliana discovered the ideal landscape to make their coffee-related dreams come true. The place was named Finca Andaluz and with the passage of time they have transformed it into a laboratory for experimentation where Manfred plays with different varieties and processing methods.
Andaluz is located between the 1,500 and 1,980 m.a.s.l., and its soils are predominantly of volcanic origin. The farm spans a total area of 64 hectares out of which 34 are dedicated to coffee production. This micro lot of the Java variety was treated to a long fermentation to highlight in cup notes of jasmine, cherry, and caramel.
Azahar would like to highlight that this coffee was purchased under the recommendations of the Sustainable Coffee Buyers Guide.
The Guide is a comprehensive tool that seeks to tackle certain issues of systematic poverty faced by coffee producers, particularly smallholders, and their workers, by informing buyers of the specific costs of production and living wage per region for a coffee producing family. Using this tool, buyers can make an informed purchase and base the pricing on the coffee on real-life calculations.
The price paid to the producer for each 125 kg of this microlot was 3 ‘500’ 000 COP. With this price the producer will make, on average, what we have been denoting as a “dignified” wage that at the same time includes this same level of income for the farm workers, instead of a minimum legal wage, or below. The Anker Research Institute, the leading authority on the calculation of income defines a dignified wage as follows: A Dignified Wage means that all the sources of income for a rural household are sufficient to pay for the costs of a basic livelihood, but descent, for a family. This includes nourishments for a model diet, dignified housing, other essential needs and unexpected events”.
Finca Andaluz is a coffee that is worth trying, not only for its outstanding cup profile, but also for the care, responsibility and transparency it was created with.
