Cup Notes:  Sweet with juicy fruity acidity and a creamy mouthfeel; lots of sugar flavor with caramel, grapefruit, apple, lemon zest and some berry flavor.

Roast Profile: Medium 

Region:  Uribe, Cauca

Farmer Cooperative:  Various smallholder members of ASMUCAFE

About this Coffee:  Femme Fatale is a seasonally available single-origin coffees - produced by women growers.

Notes from Our Importer Regarding This Lot

ASMUCAFE stands for Asociación de Mujeres Agropecuarias de Uribe, an organization of women farmers and landowners in El Tambo, a municipality within Cauca. The women's mission as an association is to improve their families' quality of life through coffee farming and to contribute positively to their community by working together and sharing resources, knowledge, and support. "Our work is determined by our values such as responsibility, honesty, commitment, respect, solidarity, and competitiveness," they say.

The coffee, all of which is of Castillo or Colombia variety, is picked as purple (Castillo) or bright red (Colombia) cherry, and undergoes a somewhat unusual "double" fermentation process, as the women describe it: First, the cherries are left in the loading hoppers for 14 hours, then they are depulped in the afternoons and evening hours and placed into traditional open fermentation tanks for another 10 hours. Then they are washed three to four times before being dried either in parabolic dryers or in the sun for 8–12 days.