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Marco Aurelio's Villa Flor, Nariño, Colombia
Roasting Monday, March 24th Full Flavor Roast!

Marco Aurelio Ortega is another very small Colombian farmer deeply attached to the earth and its life-forces. We have been announcing his arrival in earlier newsletters. He uses only natural inputs and applies no chemicals to his farm. He grows medicinal and aromatic herbs, fruits and many different trees on his tiny 3 acre farm. He has even contoured his farm on the steep slopes, at 6,000 feet, something I am told again and again in Colombia that small farmers cannot afford - yet he has done it simply because he feels that erosion control is worth the effort. Marco Aurelia will be applying for organic certification, which practices he has long applied out of his own convictions. We are looking into importing his coffee-blossom honey which he currently sells to the local market...

Mr. Ortega produced 6 micro-lots this past summer. They were all exemplary (we picked his coffee out blind again and again). Drinking Villa Flor is like listening to a beautifully tuned stringed instrument. It sings. And then it disappears, like music. It is 100% of the Caturra variety at its best. This variety was created to increase production yet produce high quality; here the Caturra plants' high productivity is held back through the use of shade trees. Ortega's craftsmanship brings out delicate complex flavor notes of great clarity reminiscent of Burgundy 's Pinot Noir. Villa Flor is a coffee that combines great delicacy with real spine. The cup has laser-like acidity that is all sweetness and light around a Brazil nut core wafting filigree wintergreen-tinged tropical fruit aromas from hot to cold with wisps of soft persimmons, essence of pomegranate and passion fruit. Villa Flor has a svelte yet sensuous body that derives purely from its oils and a natural sweetness without trace of edginess.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

24 - Mar - Colombia Villa Flor FF
31 - Mar - Panama La Esmeralda FF

Terroir Coffee has purchased several micro-lots at dramatically greater expense because of their outstanding exemplary quality - well worth sharing with those in search of the ultimate cup. All except one of these are top place winners in the Cup of Excellence, referred to as the "Olympics of coffee competitions" in the New York Times. All of these limited edition coffees have been received in our roasting facility in pristine condition and are being kept that way using our special packaging and cold storage techniques.