Colombia
Huila
Albeiro Jimenez
El Canelo
Tabi
Washed
November
Aromatic, Citrus, Yellow Fruit, Clean
1925 meters
N/A
70kg with liner
SOLD OUT
Albiero Jimenez has been working in coffee for all his life. In 2014 he met Rodrigo Sanchez and was inspired by the passion and desire of the Aromas Del Sur team to make changes in coffee production and unite the coffee producers in the area of southern Huila. Albeiro became a frequent visitor at Aromas farms and mill and learned most of his current processing techniques from Rodrigo. He has been selling his coffee to Aromas Team since 2015 and recently became one of the producers allied with the Aromas central processing facility El Puente in Palestina.
This lot of Tabi was processed by Albeiro at his smaller farm near the village of La Guajira. He brings his cherries down from the farm, El Canelo, to Palestina and processes coffee there due to better infrastructure and climate conditions for drying and fermentation. El Canelo is located to the south of Palestina on the border with the Caqueta and Cauca Departments. The climate there is humid and cold due to cold streams and mist coming from the cloud forests of the Macizo Colombiano mountain. Albeiro has planted Caturra, Geisha, Tabi and recently some 500 trees of Pink Bourbon that he got as a gift from Rodrigo Sanchez.
The Colombian Department of Huila is located in the southern portion of the country where the Central and Eastern ranges of the Andes mountains converge. Huila’s capital city of Neiva is dry, flat, and desert-like, markedly different from the coffee regions further south.
Centered around the city of Pitalito, Huila’s coffee farms are predominantly smallholder owned and over the past ten years have made concerted efforts to produce specialty coffee that reveals the full character of the region’s terroir. Selective manual harvesting, attentive processing, and careful post-harvest sorting all contribute to increasing recognition of the region.
Huila’s Departmental coffee committee, the local connection to the national Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, has invested notable resources into training producers in everything from fertilization to roasting. This, combined with producer enthusiasm, has created a regional culture of quality-focused production.
Huila holds important historic significance dating back to pre-Columbian cultures. The archeological site at San Agustin includes a large number of stone carvings, figures, and artifacts that offer a rare glimpse into the land’s past prior to colonialism.
