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Rooted in Montebonito’s Hills
Grown high in the Andes of Caldas, this community lot comes from Montebonito, a small village about an hour from Manzanares in the municipality of Marulanda. Surrounded by steep slopes and misty peaks, farms here are tiny, usually just 1 to 3 hectares, and worked almost entirely by the families who own them, with every cherry picked by hand.
In recent years, Montebonito has joined renewal programs that brought new education in specialty coffee production, and you can taste it in the care behind this lot. From hand-sorted Castillo Naranjal cherries to slow drying under sun canopies and a month of resting before export, every step is about letting the coffee’s sweetness and clarity come through. It’s a true showcase of a small mountain community putting itself on the map..