Single Origin - COLOMBIA DULIMA
ORIGIN: Colombia
SUBREGION: Tolima and Huila regions
PROCESSING: Washed
CUP NOTES: Dark chocolate, sweet, red grape, orange rind
COFFEE GRADE: Excelso
A premium brand specialty coffee, from high altitudes in the Tolima and Huila growing regions. The spread of coffee planting throughout Colombia in the early 19th century is attributed to a priest who made coffee planting a penance for his parishioners. It worked. Colombia is among the largest producer of coffee in the world, and was number two behind Brazil for decades. The Tolima growing regions is named after the Tolima district, which was home to Pijaos people before the Spanish arrived. The Pijaos were known among the Spaniards as fierce defenders of their homeland, which they called Dulima.