Colombia | Suarez

Colombia is a country at South America’s northern tip of and is the second-largest Arabica coffee producing country in the world after Brazil. It is a country of great diversity, both geographically, culturally, and Its land stretches from the Amazon Rainforest to the highlands of the Andes mountains. A case of Leaf Rust in 2009 decimated much of its coffee production, prompting a re-energisation of the country’s coffee sector. Coffees are typically mild bodied with crisp acidity and citric sweetness.

Suarez is located to the west of the Central cordillera. It has a great variety of landscapes and cultural resources as well as a gastronomical reputation for producing coffee and cane sugar.

The coffee here is picked by the smallholders with their families and neighbours and generally washed and dried on the farm, often at high altitudes on steep slopes, or brought to a nearby beneficiary for processing. It is then brought to the dry mill or cooperative headquarters for cupping, scoring and sorting for export.