COLOMBIA, ALEXANDER HERNANDEZ - COFFEE ROASTED FOR FILTER

Chocolate, caramel & orange blossom. Sweet & balanced with a clean finish. Region: Pitalito Process: Washed Varietals: Caturra Alexander Hernández Toledo farms Finca La Esmeralda near Pitalito in southern Huila, working alongside Leidy Johana Vargas. Public producer profiles place the farm at roughly nine hectares and around 1,700–1,800 MASL, with Caturra, Colombia and Gesha growing beneath cachingo, guamo and plantain shade. Their focus is on careful harvesting and disciplined post-harvest work that expresses structure, sweetness and florality without relying on overt fermentation character. Assembly sourced this Caturra lot through Cofinet, a Colombian grower-exporter whose Australian team connects roasters with producers at origin. Pitalito is one of Huila’s best-known coffee centres, close to the Colombian Massif where the Andes divide and the headwaters of major rivers, including the Magdalena, begin. Steep terrain and rapid changes in elevation create distinct microclimates from farm to farm, while cool high-altitude nights slow cherry maturation and help preserve acidity. Caturra itself is a compact natural mutation of Bourbon: its smaller trees allow denser planting and make selective picking easier, while its strong cup potential helped it spread widely through Colombia. The trade-off is susceptibility to coffee leaf rust, making shade, soil health and attentive farm management particularly important. For washed processing, ripe cherries are sorted and depulped befor Sold on Assembly (https://assemblystore.com/shop/colombia-alexander-hernandez-coffee-roasted-for-filter). The price shown is the retail price on that storefront on 2026-10-31, not a GreenB2B quote or a wholesale price.