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Colombia Cauca Best Cup Regional Select

Country: Colombia

Grade: Cup of Excellence

Region: Cauca Department

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Processing Method: Washed

This lot comes from Colombia's Cup of Excellence Special Selection. Variety: Caturra. Processing: fully washed, sun-dried.

Variety: Caturra

Batch: Special Selection Micro-lot

Flavor Profile: Nuts, dark chocolate, caramel

Shelf Life: 90 days

Net Weight: 227g

Packaging: Bulk coffee beans

State: Roasted coffee beans

Sugar Content: Sugar-free

Origin: Colombia

Roast Level: Medium roast

Following Colombia's Fine Traditions

Cauca coffee is hand-picked and fully washed. What makes the region stand out is its stubborn loyalty to tradition: while many growing areas have swapped out old varieties for new ones in pursuit of better disease resistance and higher yields, Cauca has held on to Caturra as its dominant variety, alongside heritage Typica and Bourbon plantings.

The signature of Cauca coffee is a bright, beautiful acidity paired with an elegant sweetness and the soft, mild body Colombia is known for — a combination that keeps buyers coming back season after season. A good Cauca lot shows layered florals, vivid acidity, pleasing sweetness and a medium body, all wrapped up clean, gentle and beautifully balanced.

Origin Introduction

Cauca Department takes its name from the Cauca River and sits in southwestern Colombia. Together with Nariño and Huila, it forms one of the country's most important specialty coffee belts.

Cauca is a certified Colombian coffee origin, with an average altitude of 1,758 meters that climbs to 2,100 meters at its highest points. Its topography, rainfall, temperature and volcanic soil combine to create near-perfect conditions for growing coffee.

The climate difference between Cauca and other regions comes down to temperature swing. The average daily temperature is 11°C, while the daytime average is 18°C. That day-night gap is a crucial factor in the cup: cooler nights at higher altitude slow the coffee's growth, giving the seeds and beans more time to draw nutrients from the fruit. The result is Cauca's brighter acidity and its much-praised, distinctive sweetness.

Pour-over Brewing Method

To brew Colombia by pour-over, use 15g of coffee at a medium grind (a setting of 4 on a Fuji ghost-tooth grinder) in a V60 dripper with water at 88-89°C. Start with a 30g pour and let it bloom for 27 seconds, then pour up to 105g and pause. Once the water level drops to about half, resume a slow, steady pour until you reach 225g total. Stop before the tail end of the extraction. That's a 1:15 water-to-coffee ratio with a total extraction time of 2:00.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you like the balanced, nutty sweetness of this Cauca lot, FrontStreet's Colombia Huila is the natural next step. Huila is the country's most celebrated specialty region, a pocket of mountains in the southern Central Cordillera where coffee grows above 1,500 meters and the country's main rivers converge, feeding the soil with abundant water and humidity. Roasted medium-dark, it leans into dark chocolate and toasted nuts, with a rounded body and just enough oil to feel rich without turning heavy.

That flexibility makes it an easy everyday bean: it shines as a pour-over or French press, and it extracts just as well in a moka pot or on an espresso machine, so Americanos and lattes are well within reach.

For something more adventurous, try FrontStreet's Finca El Diviso Sidra, an anaerobic natural from Colombia's new wave of experimental processing. Sealed fermentation in stainless steel tanks — temperature, time and pH carefully controlled — coaxes out layers of tropical fruit. Roasted medium-light, it works beautifully as pour-over, cold brew, drip bag or moka pot, pouring out passion fruit, grape, apricot and candied-fruit notes.

And if you brew espresso at home or with a moka pot, FrontStreet's Premium Espresso Blend was built for it: Brazilian creamy-nut sweetness meets Colombian dark-chocolate bittersweetness, pulling a fine golden crema that turns silky with milk. It's a forgiving base for lattes and works just as well for Americanos, cappuccinos and mochas.