Producer: Small growers of San Lorenzo group
Region: Caldas, Colombia
Varietal: Caturra, Colombia & Castillo
Importer: Falcon Speciality

Our coffee offering is all about showcasing fresh in-season single-origin coffees of varied favour profiles while sharing stories of their origins and producers.

With our house espresso, we look for coffees with a full body, coating, syrupy mouthfeel, notes of chocolate, caramel and a mellow stone-fruit acidity. They will present plenty of sweetness and character to stand alone as an espresso or long black whilst pairing beautifully with milk for a silky comforting flat white.

To maintain a consistency of favour throughout the year without compromising on the coffee’s quality and freshness we have chosen Colombia to be the origin for our house espresso. This also enables us clearly to know and communicate the coffee’s origin.

The country’s size, geographical position and hilly terrain with a variety of micro-climates provides perfect conditions for growing high-quality coffees; it also allows for harvesting year round, meaning that we can source fresh coffees throughout the year.

We source these coffees with the help of our importing partner Falcon Speciality, who work closely with growers and cooperatives on the ground in Colombia. The lots will change every four to six months as fresh coffee becomes available from different growing regions whilst the favour profile remains consistent.

The San Lorenzo group is part of the Cooperativa de Caficultores de Alto Occidente de Caldas which was established in 1964. It is an indigenous group of producers based in the Rio Sucio municipality of Caldas where there are 11,500 inhabitants with 1,150 farmers producing coffee within 21 communities.

Until recently, this region was heavily inhabited by paramilitary groups and guerrillas, who looked to control this central corridor in Colombia. The region has not been known for specialty coffee production but as the local tensions have eased and access improved, it is now possible to showcase the great quality of the coffees available from this area.

The indigenous inhabitants believe in the Pacha Mama – earth goddess, and see the land as a living being. To them it is their duty to protect the natural environment and have as little impact as possible from their farming of coffee and to leave it as it has always been.

Each farmer has approximately 0.5 hectares of land with about 2500 coffee trees. During the harvest season, families work with their neighbours to select ripe cherry before de-pulping and fermenting the coffee in water for 16 -24 hours, depending on the weather. The coffee is then washed and put out to dry on small drying patios, usually on the roofs of houses, for between 8 – 14 days. Then it is delivered to the cooperative where it is assessed and allowed to rest before being milled and prepared for shipment.

House Espresso

Curve is a speciality coffee roastery based in Margate, East Kent.

We're dedicated to responsibly sourcing the most interesting fresh crop green coffee we can get our hands on and roasting it to bring out the best of its intrinsic flavours. 

Our mission is to put producers in the spotlight and celebrate the dedication and hard work that happens at coffee origins. Each coffee has a unique story and we want to share them.

We believe world of speciality coffee is endlessly inspiring and fascinating but it should also be fun, accessible and sustainable. We strive to be at the forefront of the industry, constantly exploring, learning and improving our practices in quest of outstanding quality but also sustainability. 

We're determined to become an acknowledged source of coffee and education and nurture the growing speciality coffee community in the Kent area as well as to make positive contribution toward enhancement of the vibrant global speciality coffee community.

House Espresso

0.0

House Espresso

New Coffee Review