Colombia
Huila
Diego Quinallas
El Eden
Caturra
Washed
November
Sweet, Round, Uniform
1698 meters
N/A
70kg with liner
SOLD OUT
Diego is a 34 year old coffee producer from Huila, Cafarnaun, Palestina. He is a neighbor of Rodrigo Sanchez’s family and his farm is just a stone thrown from Rodrigo’s El Progreso farm. He has been working with Rodrigo and the Aromas del Sur team since 2015 . Before that, he sold wet coffee to local cooperatives and traders. Diego and his family live in the town of Palestina and also own a small apparel shop.
He is planting Colombia and Caturra varieties on his seven-hectare farm and split his production in half between microlots and blends with some of the cherries delivered to El Puente micro processing mill built by Rodrigo Sanchez and Aromas del Sur team.
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 predominately smallholder owned and over the past ten years have made consorted 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.
