All for one, one for all! A unique way to experience 3 outstanding lots of high-quality varietals, all at once.
VERY SPECIAL
This set showcases 3 different washed lots of Geisha, Chiroso and Pink Bourbon—all produced by award-winner Felipe Henao Triana from Los Tres Mosqueteros (Colombia).
The beauty of having these side-to-side is that you’ll be able to taste and notice the difference between varietals—the other factors (location, conditions, harvest, processing) are the same.
THE VARIETALS
100g of washed Geisha (VS)
The most revered varietal within the specialty coffee world. Felipe explains that the seedlings for his Geisha plantation were given to him by friends Carlos Belalcázar, from La Bohemia, and Abdias Muñoz of El Porvenir in Nariño, who were respectively placed 1st and 2nd in the 2022 Cup of Excellence.
100g of washed Chiroso (VS)
Los Tres Mosqueteros won 1st place in the 2020 Cup of Excellence with a washed lot of Chiroso—just like this!
100g of washed Pink Bourbon
Pink Bourbon is rarely grown in the Urrao region. It’s a hybrid of Red and Yellow Bourbon, which apparently is quite resistant to the coffee rust disease. The downside? Harvest consistency can be tricky.
ABOUT LOS TRES MOSQUETEROS AND FELIPE
Felipe is originally from the Tolima region of Colombia and is his family’s 1st generation of coffee growers alongside his brother.
His first contact with the industry was when he was 16. Felipe shadowed his brother in visiting coffee producers around the region—he worked with a coffee exporter. A few years later, he left to study Agro-Industrial Engineering in Cauca while his brother bought some land in Antioquia, where he planned to start his own production. When Felipe finished his degree, he decided to join the family business.
The area of Urrao, where the estate is located, is very special for the production of specialty coffee. It is a valley at 1950 MASL, with a very stable temperature of 19 degrees Celsius that makes the cherries develop slower and denser than in other areas. Surprisingly though, Urrao is not famous as a coffee-producing region: its main activity is the production of avocado.
For Felipe and his brother, kickstarting the coffee production felt extremely difficult. The main reason? They tried to grow 80,000 coffee plants completely organic and from scratch, later losing 80% of those initial trees. Today, however, things look a bit better, and they have 25,000 coffee trees—50% currently organically grown and slowly transitioning to a fully organic coffee plantation.
ABOUT THE WASHED PROCESS
Daily cherry collections are fermented in bags for 24 hours as whole cherry, then pulped and left to dry ferment in tanks. This process is repeated for 5 daily cherry pickings. The accumulated coffee is then washed clean on the 6th day and commingle fermented on the 7th day. Finally, the coffee is left to dry on parabolic raised beds to control temperature and humidity to export requirements.
ENJOY!
We look forward to hearing about how you found this experience!
Shipping details and low-down for pre-orders
This set will be our next Brew Crew VS subscription feature, due on Wednesday, August 16, 2023. So, if you’re an active subscriber, this is what you’ll get!
If you hold a subscription other than VS (Brew Crew, Pacemaker, Sweet Tooth, Decaf) and want to receive this one-off item, you can bundle it, and we’ll ship it with your next delivery, due on Wednesday, 16th of August or later (but no later than mid-September, as the coffee will be too old, so if the subscription is on pause it will be automatically brought to a date within that range).
If you’re not a subscriber, complete an online purchase before the end of Sunday, 13th of August. It’ll be shipped and/or ready for collection from our Pro Shop on the following day. (Collection from Surry Hills or Old Gold will be ready from Tuesday, 22nd or August.)
Retail orders that include this item will be dispatched on Wednesday, August 16, 2023.
