Colombia Finca Mira Sol 72 Hour Anaerobic
Captain's Gold top 3! Finca Mira Sol is named for the farm's beautiful view of the sun through the local mountains and canyons of Gaitania - an Indigenous community in the Tolima department. The long anaerobic fermentation imparts a level of fruity sweetness you usually only get from natural processed coffees! It's got wonderful brightness and exceptional balance with notes of papaya, plum, mandarin and a tone of raw sugar and white chocolate throughout.
This delightful coffee rounds out our offerings from the Indigenous Nasa Wesx community of Gaitania in Colombia’s Tolima department. Eider Socorreno’s farm is named Mira Sol (view of the sun) for it’s beautiful view of the sun through the local mountains and canyons. Check out the pictures and imagine that vista as you drink this coffee – it feels like this cup was tailor made for beautiful, sunny views. Better yet, bring this coffee with you to a beautiful view of your own! I can’t think of a better way to spend a spring morning.
For this lot, Eider chose an unusual combination of Castillo and Cenicafe varieties. These humble cultivars are typically relegated to blends but we’re learning more and more lately that expert processing can elevate any variety from mid-tier to high. After a very careful hand selection process, he fermented the cherries for upwards of 72 hours in anaerobic bags before finally washing and drying. The result is a cup that’s far greater than the sum of its parts! It’s wonderfully bright and crisp with much more fruity sweetness than you’d expect from a washed coffee. The cup is super clean and well balanced with notes tropical notes like papaya and pineapple along with ripe mandarin and plum all with a raw sugar and white chocolate tone throughout. A stellar cup that tastes as good as a beautiful view looks!
Reminder! This coffee is raw, you must roast it before brewing
Arrival Date: March 31st, 2025. Harvest season: 2024-2025, Packed in GrainPro
Acidity & Brightness: Gently bright and sweet.
Balance & Finish: Very balanced with a bright finish.
Body & Texture: Rich with a creamy texture
Flavors: Plum, mandarin, papaya, white chocolate & sugar cane.
Grade: Excelso, 14/16 screen size, Grown at 1,900 masl, SHB
Processing: Fermented for 72 hours in anaerobic bags before pulped and fully washed. Shade dried.
Grower: Eider Socorreno | Finca Mira Sol
Region: Gaitania, Tolima, Colombia.
Varieties: Castillo & Cenicafe
Recommended Roast Range: City to Full City (Light to Medium)
We like this coffee best at City + (Light-medium) or as first crack has begun to trail off. We find this “lighter side of medium” roast level really showcases the florals and citrus in the cup. If you prefer a more balanced cup, feel free to take this coffee to a full medium, or just after first crack has trailed off. Pushing the roast into the first few snaps of second crack will yield a more chocolate focused cup at the expense of the more subtle floral notes, but the cup will pick up a bit more body and creamy texture.
Belco Coffee - "The Mira Sol farm is located in the Nasa Wesx indigenous reservation of Gaitania Tolima in the village of La Palmera, in the valley of the Atá River from where you can see the sun from sunrise to sunset through the mountains of the canyon of the Nevado del Huila National Natural Park. It is a family farm where all the members of the family work as well as some workers who support the daily work on the farm, it is a site that guarantees a production that allows to live in peace with the community and subsist on their income to live well. The road from Planadas is difficult to access and can only be reached by road or walking for more than 2 hours from the town to the village. The condition of the road is not very good but it is the only way to get our products, only in cars of a maximum of one ton to a point and is transferred to a larger truck to carry the coffee to the customer's warehouses, that makes it difficult and expensive transportation. The name Mira Sol because from there you can see the sunrise in the mornings and how it falls in the afternoons through the valley of the Ata River. This farm has belonged to the family and has been built with the work of the family for several years, of hard times but also of a lot of hope and hard work to have what we have today. ”
Eider Socorreno - ” My father has been in the farm since I was a child and has taught me how to produce coffee of excellent quality. I can say that I have always been in the middle of the coffee plantations and always wanting to have better quality so that it can be sold better and the territory can be recognized as a cradle of excellent quality coffees. I leanerd about coffee production from my father and mother, and from the whole family and community of my indigenous reserve (community).”
