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Nariño Coffee Beans

Nariño, pronounced "Na Li Niu," which we've become accustomed to calling "Na Ling Long," is located in the southwestern part of Colombia, bordering Ecuador while also facing the Pacific Ocean. The best coffee-producing areas in Nariño are located around the Galeras Volcano, an active volcano where you can see thick smoke rising from the crater, reaching altitudes of over 4,000 meters. Surrounding this volcano are high-altitude premium coffee-producing regions.

The producing areas around Galeras Volcano have cultivation heights ranging from 1,800 to 2,300 meters. Although the equator passes through this province, due to the high altitude and river regulation, the annual average temperature is only 18°C to 24°C. The day-night temperature difference often exceeds 15°C, which is one of the favorable conditions for growing exceptional coffee. The Finca Villa Maria, which we recently acquired, is located in this region. Since 2000, Nariño coffee has earned the title of premium specialty coffee from southern Colombia, especially since the Cup of Excellence (CoE) national coffee competition began in 2005, which has made the Nariño name even more renowned!

Nariño coffee beans are harvested successively throughout July. By August, the dry season will end, and combined with the monomodal rainfall pattern, this allows the Nariño region to enter an intensive flowering period after the first rain of September. This typically means the main cherry harvest season will be concentrated from April to July of the following year, with ultra-high altitude areas even continuing into August. Farmers conduct the first stage of post-processing at their small wet processing facilities after harvesting, continuing until November, when the second stage of post-processing including drying, hulling, and grading is completed. They prepare for export in January, and consumer countries begin seeing them on the market starting in March. The batch of Villa Maria that FrontStreet Coffee currently has is fresh, in-season beans delivered directly from the producing region to Taiwan through this process.

While coffee can be harvested twice in many regions of Colombia, Nariño only has one harvest. Nariño's only rainy season is from October to May, but this is immediately followed by the dry season of June, July, and August. Fortunately, warm air currents in this region carry moisture upward from the valley during the day, creating greater water vapor condensation on cold nights, increasing humidity. This反而 allows coffee trees to receive moisture during the dry season and survive through the cold nights.

This microclimate created by the steep terrain enables coffee trees at altitudes from 1,600 to 2,300 meters in Nariño to survive during cold or extremely dry seasons. This is the characteristic of Nariño's high-altitude estates. The cultivated coffee can have sufficient and absorbable water sources, appropriate growing temperatures (the temperature difference in this region can exceed 15°C), adequate sunlight, and unique terrain winds, forming distinctive flavors different from other regions - what we call the WTSW, four elements (water, temperature, sunlight, wind patterns).

The following two maps can be compared. The left map shows topographical elevation, where you can see the towering mountainous areas in the south. Most coffee-producing areas in Nariño exceed 1,600 meters. The right map circles several important specialty coffee provinces in Colombia:

In the Nariño coffee-producing region, coffee farmers use simple cherry processing machines at their homes. They perform depulping immediately after harvesting and conduct fermentation processing. The middle photo shows the power of the dry season, while the right photo shows the nursery area of the farm:

Finca Villa Maria is a domestic winning estate in Colombia's Cup of Excellence competition, with outstanding quality. Nariño had a good harvest last year, producing many excellent batches, including the CoE second-place batch that we successfully bid on. We will cup each batch individually before putting them on sale. These batches all belong to "direct relationship coffee."

Although Villa Maria's harvesting was slower, it still advanced to the domestic winners due to its excellent quality. Unfortunately, due to slight score differences, it did not advance to the international competition. After we received samples and cupped them, we couldn't help but feel it was treated unfairly - it definitely had the quality of at least 86 points! However, this domestic winner was penalized for insufficient maturity due to overly fresh samples submitted. It was originally a dark horse that everyone coveted, and we feel fortunate to have successfully bid on it. Moreover, with rising bean prices, this price is relatively reasonable compared to competition beans.

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