2022 Advent Calender
La Estrella Natural Gesha Standout Coffee Roasters
Dec
Specialty Coffee Advent Calendar – 2022
Dec 1
Colombia La Estrella Natural Gesha
Taste Profile: Floral aroma with notes of dried fruit, candied raspberries, a wonderful structure and a long finish with an elegant acidity.
Origin: Colombia
Producer: Carlos Estrella
Variety: Gesha
Process: Natural
Harvest date: June 2022
Altitude:1970 masl
Roasted by: Standout Coffee Roasters
Carlos Estrella takes very attentive care of Finca La Estrella, the farm belonging to his mother Aura Eliza Nupan, in the town of Buenos Aires in the municipality of La Union, Nariño. This lot is from the La Ramada lot of the farm. Carlos carefully selects ripe cherries and begins post-harvest processing by sorting out immature and over ripe cherries through removing “floaters” when the cherries are immersed in water. The next step is manually sorting cherries to ensure consistency. Due to the farm’s humid climate, cherries dry for up to two months in a parabolic dryer where they are exposed to the sun during the day and moved constantly to avoid mold formation and to dry the coffee evenly. In the dryer, the cherries are covered overnight to avoid the early morning dew and maintain an even moisture content. Carlos constantly observes climate conditions, as they tend to vary drastically. Dried cherries from Finca La Estrella’s are stored in a dry warehouse in jute bags for the first ten days and then rested until they are dry milled and placed into GrainPro. Both the coffee trees and the fruit they produce are treated with special care at Finca La Estrella.
What a start to the Christmas countdown!
Man, I forgot how good coffee could be. Excellent first choice. Love the article, too. And it’s even my birthday today. It’s gonna be a great day!
Hello from Singapore!
Medium roast, blueberries…
Must be Ethiopian coffee!
good morning from Los Angeles- Made an aeropress and chemex of this. yum!
Very nice start of desember 😊
Wow, the chocolate combination really brought this coffee to a whole other level! Great start 🙂
Hi from Malaysia and “imported” France 🙂 so far, love the coffee experience and reading about how the coffee has been made with real respect and love, explains fully the complexity of taste and notes you can find in the cup. Feel really grateful and blessed 🙏
Wow. What a beautiful and enjoying coffee! Definitely taste the fruit, pleased by how not bitter this coffee is.
Excellent coffee and impressive start. Thanks.
This was great!
My first gesha. What a beautiful way to start the calendar!!!!
What a way to start December! This really is my favorite advent tradition my husband and I have!
What a start! 🤩 Definitely want to revisit this one in the future.
What a way to kick things off! The notes of dried fruit 👌🤩
The aroma on this one was amazing to start things off.
Hi from Malaysia and “imported” France 🙂 so far, love the coffee experience and reading about how the coffee has been made with real respect and love, explains fully the complexity of taste and notes you can find in the cup. Feel really grateful and blessed 🙏