Jairo Arcila Santa Monica (Peach)

Jairo Arcila, Santa Monica; Armenia, Quindío, Colombia; Arabica Pink Bourbon; Honey; Peach Co-fermentation with Wine Yeast; 2024

Stone Fruits | Sweet Peaches | Molasses | Cacao Nibs

Cofinet is founded by Felipe Arcila and Carlos Arcila, sons of Jairo Arcila. They collectively own about 20 nearby farms in Armenia Quindio. These coffees are collectively processed at their own La Pradera near the Armenia airport (Google Plus Code: F7GR+98 Quindio, Colombia). When we visited them in 2019, we were staying at this beautiful wet mill.

During COVID, Cofinet became famous for making fruit maceration coffees in their Santa Monica and Finca Villarazo, both owned by their father Jairo Arcila. Since we started featuring his coffees in 2021, we have carried strawberry, passion fruit, mandarin, orange, cinnamon, lychee, banana and peach. The technique for fruit maceration differs from cinnamon maceration. Peach maceration is similar to strawberry maceration. In cinnamon maceration, the coffee was exposed to a dry anaerobic fermentation of 72 hours with the pulp on. 

We wrote a blog post on this coffee in 2022. In June 2024, we wrote another blog post to reflect on evolving trends which include maceration coffees.

Savouring our world in a cup!
Enjoy!