Asoemprender / Asociacion de Empresarios de Argelia. Is an association created to organize negotiations for selling coffee, as well as to reduce the cost of transportation from Argelia to Popayan (8 hour drive). At the beginning, 7 members founded Asoemprender in 2013, and today the group has grown to17 members. They have a community silo for drying coffee at the peak of the harvest.
— Luis Arocha
Regional Select is a new project we are creating in Colombia meant to highlight the unique profiles we have found that are inherent in specific microregions within Colombia. The regions we will begin highlighting to start are Huila, Narino, Cauca and Tolima.
We think that the terroir or soil, sun, weather, and placement on the planet contribute largely to the flavor of these coffees when picked ripe and handled properly. So these coffees are selected by cup and then blended together like a Rhone wine or a local honey that comes from many fields in a 4 mile radius.
For more information about coffee production in Colombia, visit our Colombia origin page.
