Antonio Medina

About This Coffee

This washed Caturra, grown at Antonio Medina’s La Colina, showcases sweet honey and hazelnut, lifted by green apple. La Colina is located just outside the town of San Martin Jilotepeque, only about one and a half hours from the Guatemalan capital, Guatemala City. It’s also a short drive from the famed Antigua region, the source of Tony’s inspiration to start growing coffee, after initially growing corn and beans on his plot of his father’s lands. Coffee from Antigua exploded in popularity in the late 20th Century; one of the early recognisable stamps of quality in the beginnings of the speciality coffee era. This inspired Tony to grow quality coffee on his lands, slowly increasing the number of coffee trees plants through the 90’s and 2000’s. Since then he has continued his pursuit of quality, receiving ever higher prices for his crop, and even beginning to plant a small lot of Geisha in the early 2010’s. This lot is a great illustration of Tony’s years of experience at all levels of coffee.