Campo Hermoso Raspberry

COUNTRY: Colombia

FARM/COOP/STATION: Campo Hermoso

VARIETAL: Yellow Bourbon

PROCESSING: Infusion fermentation (Raspberries added during fermentation)

ALTITUDE: 1.590 m.a.s.l.

OWNER: Edwin Noreña

FARM SIZE: 15 Hectares

FLAVOUR NOTES: Raspberry candy, orange peel, milky oolong tea, cardamom, white grapefruit

ABOUT THE PRODUCERS

Campo Hermoso is a Family heritage, from Don-Enrique Noreña. Edwin his youngest son (Santuario Partner in Colombia), inherited the passion for coffee growing. Six years ago, Santuario Project and Campo Hermoso joint forces to develop innovative coffee processes to enhance flavors on each of the origins that Santuario Project has Farms. A new Research & Development center was built in Armenia(2023) , to reserch new techniques to process coffees. Santuario and Campo hermoso, have a receiving station in San Adolfo Huila with 28 farmers involved on the Santuario Program, a new Farm in Argelia Valle del Cauca was recently planted with Sudan Rume and Exotic Varietals.

PROCESS

Cherries are harvested above 24 degrees brix (a measure of their sugar content) and floated before undergoing an initial Carbonic Maceration (fermentation under CO2 pressure) of 72 hours in must (juice/pulp) from both coffee cherries and fresh raspberries. after the initial fermentation, the coffee is depulped leaving 50% of mucilage, before undergoing a secondary fermentation with more coffee must for 32 hours. after this the coffee is sun-dried on african beds for 24 days, until humidity reaches 10.5%. The result is a coffee with well-integrated notes of fresh raspberry and red fruits that add to the compexity of the underlying coffee, without dominating the flavor profile too heavily.

COFFEE IN COLOMBIA

Although coffee production in Colombia did not become a large commercial industry until the 19th century, it is likely that coffee was introduced to Colombia about a century earlier by Jesuit priests.

Once commercial production started, it spread quickly. The first commercial coffee plantations were established in the northeast, near the border with Venezuela. Today, coffee is widespread and grown commercially in 20 of Colombia’s 32 Departments.

Historically, Colombia’s most renowned coffee-growing region has been the Eje Cafetero (Coffee Axis), also known as the ‘Coffee Triangle’. This region includes the departments of Caldas, Quindío and Risaralda. With a combined total area of 13,873 km² (5356 mi²), the region covers about 1.2% of the Colombian territory and composes 15% of the total land planted under coffee in the country. The region has also been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.

While the Eje Cafetero is still a coffee-producing powerhouse, coffee production in Colombia now extends far beyond this zone. In recent years, the departments of Huila, Tolima, Cauca and Nariño have become sought after and well-known coffee-growing regions. Today, they are the largest producers of coffee in Colombia by volume.

Today, there are an estimated 540,000 coffee producers in the country; around 95% of these are smallholder farmers with landholdings that are under 5 hectares. These farmers collectively contribute around 16% of the country’s annual agricultural GDP.