Colombia San Antonio | filter - single origin high-end coffee from Nariño, Colombia

Filter release #0001: Colombia San Antonio!

This Colombia San Antonio is a wonderfully smooth and sweet coffee roasted for filter brewing methods that really impressed us during cupping. What can you taste? Yellow plum, honey, and blossom.

About Finca San Antonio

Nilson and Lida Cielo López are a married couple who farm coffee as equal partners. Their finca, San Antonio, is located in the village of Medina Espejo and has been in the family since 2003, when Nilson inherited the farm from his father. At the time, many doubted whether coffee could thrive at such a high altitude, but the couple planted the Caturra and Colombia varieties and proved them wrong. The soil produced excellent harvests and coffee with a remarkable character.

Over the years, Nilson and Lida continued to refine their work and introduced the Castillo variety due to its resistance to fungus and consistent productivity.

With every harvest, they made practical improvements to the farm. They built a small processing facility, installed parabolic dryers and tanks, developed a water purification system, built a road, and constructed a house on the property. These additions helped them process the coffee better and maintain quality at every stage.

In addition to coffee, they also grow tomatoes, beans, peas, corn, and bananas. These crops provide for their household’s livelihood and provide natural shade for the coffee plants. They also protect areas of native forest where squirrels and other animals live, maintaining a healthy balance between agriculture and local biodiversity.

The family now produces Caturra, Colombia, and Castillo, and has recently begun growing exotic varieties such as Gesha and Bourbon Papayo. Nilson has served as mayor of the community and remains a social leader who is closely involved with his neighbors. On their farm, he and Lida occasionally organize training sessions to share their knowledge of cultivation and processing to help other farmers improve their own coffee.

Their vision for the future is simple and powerful. They want to continue to innovate, continue to collaborate with other farmers, and pass the López family coffee tradition on to their children. For them, coffee is not just their work. It is a way of life, a source of community, and a legacy that will hopefully live on for generations.

Product info

Variety: Caturra
Process: Honey (a process in which the cherries are pulped and the beans are dried, which enhances the sweetness and complexity of the flavor)
Altitude: 2,100 masl
Producer: Nilson López & Lida Cielo López
Trader: Cuprima