Colombia Paradise Estate Double Anaerobic Process Plum Flavor with Shocking Sweet and Sour Sensation

FrontStreet Coffee - Colombia El Paraiso Plum Introduction

Colombia is currently the third-largest coffee-producing country after Brazil and Vietnam, but it is also the largest producer of Arabica coffee, since 100% of Colombian coffee is Arabica. Although production was traditionally dominated by large estates, the sharp decline in international coffee prices that began in the early 1990s saw the rise of small-scale producers.

Colombian coffee boasts extremely rich diversity, driven primarily by the country's varied soil, topography, climate, and varieties, along with increasingly diverse processing techniques. The Cauca Valley region has some of the most fertile soils in Colombia, with coffee harvesting periods from September to December (main season) and March to June (secondary season).

Introduction to Finca El Paraiso

Farm owner Diego Samuel loves visiting friends' coffee estates, and through this immersion he developed the dream of growing specialty coffee. After long-term observation and learning, in 2008 farm owner Diego Samuel established his estate, Finca El Paraiso, growing varieties such as Bourbon, Gesha, and Castillo. What began as a small 2.5-hectare family estate grew as the owner invested all annual coffee profits into improving cultivation quality and learning business management.

In 2015 he entered a regional Colombian competition for the first time and won first place. It was this harvest from his diligent efforts that earned broader recognition for his coffee and gave him the motivation to keep growing high-quality coffee. In the 2018 Cup of Excellence competition he achieved an impressive tenth place with an anaerobically processed Bourbon, which later became the highest-priced "top bid" in the subsequent auction.

This Plum variety exhibits very distinctive characteristics. It has very clear strawberry notes, reminiscent of perfumed strawberries, with more floral notes and a more vibrant sweet-tart balance.

The aroma of the Plum combines with a yogurt-like sweet-tart sensation. The overall experience is fragrant and sweet.

Even with this description, I feel I have not fully captured the essence of this bean. Its richness is even greater, with clean and clear flavors, so delicious it is beyond description. Absolutely not to be missed. This is a stunning level of coffee bean.

Colombia El Paraiso Plum

Country: Colombia

Region: Cauca

Estate: El Paraiso

Producer: Diego Samuel Bermudez Tapia

Altitude: 2,050 meters

Variety: Castillo

Processing Method: Double Anaerobic Washed

Flavor Notes: High temperature: Plum, Perfumed Strawberry; Medium temperature: Plum, Yogurt; Low temperature: Floral notes, Plum, Cream

Knowledge Point: Good coffee means high-quality green beans with defective beans removed, properly roasted, and correctly extracted while fresh.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

The intense strawberry and plum sweetness of this double anaerobic lot is the kind of fruit-forward, fermentation-driven cup FrontStreet Coffee's most expressive beans are chosen for. The FrontStreet Strawberry Candy Blend combines a Costa Rica honey-processed coffee with Panama Geisha to recreate a vivid strawberry-candy sweetness with delicate florals, and it works as filter, moka pot, espresso, or cold brew. For the floral, ripe-fruit side of the same profile, the FrontStreet Genlana Gesha from Ethiopia is roasted medium-light and shows bright citrus, elegant ginger-flower aromatics, and the full sweetness of ripe fruit with a refined finish.