La Cristalina Estate Blend

La Cristalina | Sabores - Flavours of Colombia
La Cristalina | Sabores - Flavours of Colombia
La Cristalina | Sabores - Flavours of Colombia
La Cristalina Blend | Sabores - Flavours of Colombia

Region:
Caldas – Colombia

Farm| Producer:
La Cristalina | Luis Jose Valdez

Altitude:
1.650 m.a.s.l

Varieties:
Caturra – Bourbon – Castillo

Drying:
Slow-dried

Processing:
Washed

Fermentation:
18hrs in cherrie and 48hrs pulped

Notes:
Honey, Sweet, Lingering Mouthfeel, Citrus (even some Citrus Peel),
Jammy Mouthfeel & Drinking Yoghurt with Milk

SCA Score: >85

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Farm Info

Located in Vereda Bajo Español, Chinchiná, La Cristalina spans 21 hectares at 1460–1790 masl, with 4.1 hectares dedicated to an environmental reserve. Owned by the Valdes family, La Cristalina is part of Café Cuatro Generaciones, a legacy of four generations of coffee producers. The farm features 142,000 trees out of 421,000 across their three properties—Parana, La Cristalina, and San Pablo. With an ecological mill, composting coffee pulp into organic fertiliser, and a focus on biodiversity, La Cristalina incorporates sustainable practices, including shade-grown coffee with walnut, red cedar, and guava trees, plus black cedar reforestation efforts.

Caldas, part of Colombia’s “coffee triangle,” is a UNESCO-recognised Coffee Cultural Landscape, contributing significantly to research, milling, and coffee heritage.

Handpicked coffee cherries are floated and density-sorted, fermented for 18 hours before pulping followed by a 48-hour second fermentation, then slowly mechanically dried over ten days to ensure consistent flavour development.