Liliana Ramirez - Washed Chiroso

Highlights

“Liliana Ramírez tends to approximately 1,000 Chiroso trees on her small farm, Finca El Yolombo. The scale of her operation places her amongst Colombia's smallest specialty coffee producers, yet her coffee consistently demonstrates the quality that comes from careful, hands-on farming. Working at this scale allows Liliana to maintain exceptional quality control throughout the production process. Her partnership with Desarolladores, the exporter who discovered her farm and supports her with best practices, has been crucial in bringing her exceptional Chiroso to the international market. This collaboration ensures that small-scale producers like Liliana can compete alongside larger estates whilst maintaining the traditional methods that make their coffee special. Coffees are processed by what is called, Cochadas, a process where every 4-7 days a new picking is de-pulped into previous days and homogenized. The Cochadas process is a traditional practice in small-scale farms. Liliana only has around 1,000 coffee trees. She harvests every 2 weeks and usually during three days. She harvests Monday, pulps after floating in the afternoon, harvests Tuesday, pulps after floating, blends it with Monday's harvest, and harvests Wednesday, pulps after floating and washes all three harvest days on Thursday. On the final day, the coffee is washed and prepared for drying.”