La Piragua, Arley and Alexander Vargas

About This Coffee

This coffee comes from La Piragua farm, owned by Alexander Vargas and his wife, who bought the farm with the intention of producing specialty coffee. Alexander works alongside his son Arley, who has made his mark on the family business. They use equipment to carefully track fermentations, plotting data in Excel sheets and making small adjustments to achieve delightful flavors. The coffee is a rare Pink Bourbon variety, known for its refined sweetness, floral notes, and lively acidity. The natural process complements the strong character of Pink Bourbon, balancing and pushing the floral and fruity notes. Flavor profile includes forest fruit, papaya, orange, and milk chocolate.

Origin

Nariño (Colombia)

Colombia

Flavor Notes

Orange, Currant, Flowers, Forest Fruit, Papaya, Milk Chocolate

Roast Level

—

Processing

Natural

Typology

Arabica

Caturra, Pink Bourbon

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Love Coffee

Daniel and Peter have been working in specialty coffee since the early 2000s and founded Love Coffee in Lund in 2009. For the first six years, the operation was roastery only, before a coffee bar opened in central Lund in autumn 2015. They roast on a 25 kilo Diedrich drum roaster, their third machine and always an American built Diedrich, which allows 100 percent manual control over every profile. Each bag is packed by hand within 30 minutes of roasting, and every week the team runs sensory analysis on the previous week's output to keep profiles tight. Love Coffee now supplies over 50 cafes, restaurants, and offices and delivers personally to local clients each week. Sources include farms in Ethiopia, Costa Rica, and the Cerrado Mineiro region of Brazil, with selections rotating seasonally. A quote painted outside the cafe captures the ethos: Filter Coffee not People.

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