Carmen Montoya Bella Vista - Washed Chiroso - Colombia

About This Coffee

Carmen Montoya, a coffee farmer for 23 years, inherited her love for coffee and farming from her parents. Starting with a small plot of an unknown coffee variety, she won the Cup of Excellence in 2014 with her coffee, locally named “chiroso.” For her chiroso, Carmen harvests the ripened coffee cherries and subjects them to manual selection and flotation. The cherries are fermented for 12 hours, and then de-pulped. Small batches are then gathered and left to ferment for an additional 72 hours in open tanks. After this period, she washes the beans and sun-dries them for 8 days in sunbed driers