Colombia - El Paraiso, Natural Filter

Yuver Andres Arambulo Castro's 18 Hectare regenerative organic farm, Finca El Paraiso, is located in the central valley of the Tolima department in Southern Colombia, just outside the community of Siquila. We have worked exclusively with Yuver since 2020 to separate his best coffees as single farm microlots, the first time this has been achieved in the community.

Yuver, with the help of his son “Boomer”, is pushing the envelope of growing and processing in a community where traditional coffee preparation is the norm. The Arambulo family were some of the first to plant Gesha in the area, and have been experimenting with extended fermentation and natural processing for their lots. Given their preposterously high growing elevation (at 1930 masl), we are have been enjoying tasting Yuver's best lots each season over the past four seasons and seeing the marked improvement in cup quality year on year.

This coffee is the also the first Regenerative Organic Certified coffee to be imported into Australia. We are thrilled to champion  Regenerative Organic Certification (ROC) as the pinacle of certifiable organic farming and the only certification that guarantees the highest level of soil health, biodiversity and farm community welfare. Yuver has held Silver level ROC since 2023 and serves as a model for sustainable agriculture in medium sized coffee farming.

This coffee is the perfect showcase of a high altitude, highly refined Caturra lot, which has been grown under shade and handpicked only when ripe. This microlot is Yuver's first foray into Natural Processing. We agreed to work with Yuver last season to produce an initial experimental microlot, and we are thrilled that the trial was a huge success! Dried using a traditional whole-cherry drying method on semi-covered drying beds for 25 days, this lot is vibrant, sweet and incredibly drinkable.