Spotted: Mercury Espresso Bar
Address: 943 Queen Street East
Neighbourhood: Leslieville
Beans: El Roble EspressoRegion: Finca El Roble, Santander, Colombia
Roaster: Terrior Coffee
Located: Mass.
Roast: Northern Italian Espresso Roast
Verdict: lemony-pop, with fizzy cocoa smoked with nutty hints.
From the website:
 | Tasting Notes: Honey, Almond-butter, Bittersweet chocolate, Lively acidity North Italian Espresso Roast |
Our latest Colombian entry is from the north of Colombia, unlike all our past offerings. Finca El Roble is in the department of Santander, near the border with Venezuela; it is one of the first places in Colombia that coffee was grown. Coffees from this area have traditionally been called Bucaramanga, after the city which dominates the region. Bucara is a bird, and manga means wide open space.
El Roble is a 740 acre organic farm owned by Oswaldo Acevedo. It is fairly flat, belying the fact that it is on a small plateau, Mesa do los Santos, perched over 5,000 feet above sea level with one of Colombia's most spectacular canyons, Chicamocha, just a mile or so to the east and steep descents of several thousand feet on the other sides. This creates a unique climate for El Roble.
El Roble has low to moderate rainfall that is distributed in such a way as to produce a single harvest per year, December-January, unlike most Colombian farms which have two harvests per year, due to greater and more evenly distributed rains.
El Roble is also a huge organic chicken farm which produces over five pounds of chicken manure per coffee tree each year. It has over 120 full time employees with a dedicated human resources department.
Last year Mr. Acevedo began a campaign to dramatically upgrade the quality of his coffee, making procedural and structural improvements wherever necessary. This lot is part of that effort and the quality is indeed there!
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