Colombia Morales Washed Microlot

Our April Fresh Roast comes from one of our longest and most valued Direct Trade partnerships: Comepcafé Cooperative in Cauca, Colombia. We’ve been working together since 2015, and in 2025 we celebrated 10 years of collaboration built on trust, shared values, and, of course, exceptional coffee.

This April Microlot release is named after Morales, a small town and municipality in the Cauca region where Comepcafé works with highly skilled producers. The area’s unique microclimate — high rainfall, steep south‑west facing slopes, and abundant shade trees — encourages slow cherry maturation and supports incredible biodiversity.

For this release, producers chose to separate a single variety: Pink Bourbon, grown on neighbouring farms near San Antonio. This is unusual for the cooperative, as most of their farms grow mixed varieties such as Castillo and Colombia  — and the result was worth it.

We selected this Microlot from a blind cupping as some of the most satisfying coffees of the year. The combination of a high-quality variety with the slow maturation during the extended fermentation processing, and unique microclimate created a rich and balanced cup profile, very representative of what the Morales municipality can achieve at its best.

Process

Each farmer processes their coffee at a small but well‑equipped washing station on their own farm. Ripe cherries are pulped on drum pulpers before being washed in channels and dried slowly in parabolic tents, where temperature and humidity are carefully controlled. Drying typically takes around 10 days until the parchment reaches 12% moisture. For this Microlot, producers extend the fermentation phase in parchment, a method influenced by microorganisms, climate and altitude. This extended fermentation helps broaden the coffee’s flavour spectrum — enhancing sweetness, acidity and body while adding greater complexity to the final cup.

Although we recommend purchasing coffees as wholebean for freshness, you can also purchase this Microlot to be ground for your preferred brew method.