Description
Hi friends,
We’re excited to bring you a very special lot from the municipality of San Agustín, in the department of Cauca, Colombia.
Why is this lot so special?
It comes from a collaboration of smallholder farms in the region. Producers from around San Agustín harvest their Geisha cherries and send their parchment to the Monkaaba bodega, where it is carefully tasted, analyzed, and selected for this blend.
We also want to give credit to Semilla Coffee, who built strong relationships with these producers and made it possible to bring this coffee to Canada for us to roast and share with you.
Producers involved in this lot:
Orlando Quinayas, Diana Quinayas, José Omar Muñoz, Miguel Burbano, Rovira Salamanca, Ignacio Males, and Oscar Iván Hoyos.
Locations:
El Robre, La Argentina, Las Chinas, Llanada de Naranjos – San Agustín, Huila.
Harvest: 2025
Cup Profile:
Fresh fig, grape wine, lily of the valley, and milk chocolate. This is a winey cup with a crisp, elegant body and a smooth, lingering finish.
Why we love this lot:
It’s designed to ensure that small lots of exceptional coffee are still purchased despite their limited size. Most producers in this blend manage very small plots and deliver small quantities of coffee. For example, a contribution of 80% of an exportable bag is difficult to mill and export on its own—it would require more time, higher costs, and often isn’t feasible for the producer.
Without initiatives like this, many of these coffees would be sold to buyers at lower prices, ending up in large, anonymous blends with little traceability—leaving the farmer unsure where their coffee went.
We’ll share more about the realities of the global coffee system in an upcoming blog post.
For now, what we can tell you is that we cupped this Geisha blend from smallholder producers alongside other Geishas, and it stood out the most to our palate. The price was also remarkably accessible for the quality.
We hope you enjoy this amazing coffee, happy sipping friends!
