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We always say that Arnulfo Leguizamo is the ultimate cafetero<\/i> role model: He\u2019s not only a producer of some of the finest specialty coffees we\u2019ve tasted from Huila, Colombia, but he\u2019s also a community leader, innovator, and problem-solver, always looking for a way to improve or expand the ways he shares his coffee with others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified”]<\/p>\n In 2011, Don Arnulfo was the mustache known \u2018round the world for his remarkable win in the Cup of Excellence competition: His top-scoring coffee that year from Finca Primavera fetched $45 per pound at the CoE auction, and instantly granted Arnulfo the recognition he deserves. (At that time, it was the highest recorded price ever paid for a Colombian coffee.) When his fellow members of Los Naranjos Association, a small and tight-knit group of producers located in and around the town of San Agustin, learned of this honor and prize, they turned to him for advice and guidance that he was glad to give: As a result of this community-mindedness, we routinely see better and better coffees from the whole association.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Cafe_Imports_Arnulfo_Leguizamo-1.jpg” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified”]<\/p>\n While Don Arnulfo is known as someone his fellow association members can rely on and look to, he also knows that community begins with family: Not only does he work with his brother on the farms, El Fald\u00f3n and La Primavera, but also has welcomed his son (and trained cupper) Diego on to manage El Fald\u00f3n in the past few years.<\/p>\n Only four months ago, Don Arnulfo took that connection one step further by opening a caf\u00e9 run by his family, featuring\u2014what else?\u2014coffee from his two beautiful farms.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified”]<\/p>\n \u201cThe inspiration and motivation to do this was that the family wanted to have a next step in the chain of coffee, and it was a family hope to do this,\u201d Don Arnulfo recently said in an interview, translated by Fairfield Trading Company president Alejandro Renjifo. \u201cThe passion of coffee\u2014of good<\/i> coffee\u2014is a family affair, starting with my father and through my brother and myself, now my sons and nephews. The whole family is involved.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Cafe_Imports_Arnulfo_Leguizamo-1-2.jpg” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.7″ src=”\/\/cdn.cafeimports.com\/images\/Cafe_Imports_Arnulfo_Leguizamo-1-3.jpg” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified”]<\/p>\n The coffee shop, which is located in the town of San Agustin, is not only a showcase for the Leguizamo family coffees, but also a way of inspiring other coffee producers to try new ways to succeed. \u201cPeople will observe this and say, \u2018Well, if this guy can do that, we should be able to try new things as well, and we will try to improve our coffees,\u201d Don Arnulfo says.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7″ text_orientation=”justified”]<\/p>\n While the caf\u00e9 only opened in late 2019, the hope is that it will be successful enough with its sale of Chemex, V60, French press, and espresso-based coffee drinks to allow a second shop to open, where more of the family, and perhaps other members of the community, can work.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to serve the same coffees that Don Arnulfo and his family are serving in Huila, browse our current offerings for lots from Finca El Fald\u00f3n and Finca La Primavera now.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_cta url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Current Offerings” use_background_color=”off” background_color=”#7bb262″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_button=”on” button_url=”https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/offerings#\/keyword=arnulfo\/” header_font=”Changa One||||” button_text_color_hover=”#ffffff” button_text_color=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_bg_color_hover=”#911814″ button_border_color_hover=”#911814″ _builder_version=”3.7″ \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We always say that Arnulfo Leguizamo is the ultimate cafetero role model: He\u2019s not only a producer of some of the finest specialty coffees we\u2019ve tasted from Huila, Colombia, but he\u2019s also a community leader, innovator, and problem-solver, always looking for a way to improve or expand the ways he shares his coffee with others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":44297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombia","category-uncategorized"],"site_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}