Villa Luciana

The roastery is renowned and awarded Kahiwa Coffee Roasters from the city of Lahti!

They’ve picked and roasted us an amazingly aromatic & complex coffee from Villa Luciana in Narino, Colombia. It’s a Geisha variety that’s gone through natural processing.

Farm: Villa Luciana
Farmer: Karen Gomez
Location: Nariño, Colombia
Altitude: 2200masl
Varietal: Geisha
Process: Natural

Karen and Jose Gomez run the Cooperativa Cafes Especiales in Buesaco, the cooperative that builds several community lots and microlots from Nariño. Villa Luciana is named for Karen and Jose’s daughter Luciana. The Gesha from this farm was actually originally given to Karen’ family by Pablo Guerrero of Hacienda El Obraje, farmer who’s been featured in Rare many times!

Villa Luciana is just twenty minutes outside of the town of Buesaco, past the Buesaquito “barrio” or suburbs. Karen’s family has over fifty members, some working as professionals in different parts of Colombia with families and kids, while others remain where the family’s roots are, in the mountains between Buesaco and the city of Pasto, the capital of the Nariño department. Karen’s father, Hermes Chávez, is a retired livestock trader, known as a “ganadero.” His six brothers have also devoted the greatest part of their lives to the agroindustry: grains, plants, vegetables and coffee.

Nariño is one of Colombia’s 32 Departments. It shares a southern border with Ecuador and is home to thousands of smallholder coffee producing families. Colombia’s three ranges of Andean mountains converge in Nariño, presenting ideal altitudes and fertile soil for high grown Arabica production.
Nariño’s particular geography and proximity to coastal and land borders have historically transformed it into corridors for illicit trade routes, resulting in unwarranted violence against residents of remote mountain farms. Today, thanks to the particularly resilient and fearless spirit of Nariño’s farmers, the small region is a respected nucleus of coffee innovation.

Expect notes of: cranberry pie, caramel, gin tonic