In response to requests for tastier and more transparent decafs, we chose this Colombia Organic from AGROSEC to decaffienate through Swiss Water.

AGROSEC is the 41-member farmer association that was established in 2005. The farmers of AGROSEC grow a variety of crops such as rice and beans, fruits, coffee, sugar cane, and spices. Annually, they produce about 10 containers of coffee.  The members of AGROSEC are mostly Kankuamo, one of four indigenous groups living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains. They are joined by the Kogui, Arhuaco, and Wiwi peoples who all continue to honor their traditional cultural lifestyles in the isolated mountain regions. In the 1980s, the Kankuamos began organizing themselves into a united people that could carry more political and social weight in their region.

The Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta is home to 30,000 indigenous people and due to its varying climate and biodiversity, it was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1979.  The area of the Santa Marta Mountains is highly disputed territory.  Both leftist and right wing armed groups fight for control. It is an area that has been greatly affected by the narcotics trade and many Kankuamo people have lost their lives in the conflict. Responding to the need to protect their people and their heritage from outsiders, the Kankuamo people joined together to form the Kankuamo Indigenous Organization in 1993.

Cupping Notes

exceptionally clean, sweet ginger, well balanced, round body, dark chocolate, slight stonefruit/tomato