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Cauca Best Cup 2015 Rita Ruiz has produced coffee of her farm La Esperanza since 1995 with her husband Marino Rosero, they have been married for 27 years. They started with a 1/4 hectare of land where they planted 400 coffee trees.
Today the Farm area is 9 hectares with 4 hectares planted in 2000 coffee trees.
Harvest is April to June, with a picking frequency of 15 days. Coffee is pulped with a traditional pulper and Zaranda on the same day as picking. It is fermented dry for 16–18 hours, washed 3 times, and dried in parabolic and mechanic dryers for 5 days. Coffee is stored in coffee sacks on wooden pallets for 20 days before being sent to the dry mill.
Read a blog from Café Imports Europe's Gabe Dunn on Cauca Best Cup 2015 by clicking here.
Read a blog from Café Imports President Andrew Miller on the first Cauca Best Cup 2014 by clicking here.
For more general information about coffee production in Colombia, visit our Colombia origin page.
