About this Coffee
Fredy Orantes is a true leader among the coffee growers of Santa Rosa, and has worked tirelessly to maintain high standards in the field and during the harvest in order to produce the best possible coffees. Fredy is an expert with both larger lots and small microlots, and every aspect of coffee picking and processing is done with care in order to ensure top quality. Fredy is always thinking about sustainability on the farm. He actively cares for the variety of trees on the farm – grevillea and cuje are the most numerous but he also maintains other types of fruit trees and native trees. The soil is carefully maintained, and soil management includes the application of organic materials that have been composted such as fallen leaves and branches as well as coffee pulp.
Only the ripest Catuai cherries are selected for this lot, and they are soaked in water to remove any dust or floaters (immature or malformed beans) after picking. Soaking the cherries also serves to lower the microbial count and homogenize the temperature of the cherries. They are then placed on raised beds to dry; during a cooler year with more cloudy days, this resulted in a 25 to 30 day drying period carefully managed by Fredy. When on raised beds, the cherries need to be turned frequently in order to ensure thorough and even drying; Fredy laid the coffee out at 10 AM and collected it each afternoon at 2pm to ensure that it dried during the warmest parts of the day.