This coffee is a single-origin offering from the Granja La Esperanza-Las Margaritas farm in Caicedonia, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Grown at an altitude of 1750 meters, this lot features the CGLE-17 variety, a crossbreed of Gesha and Caturra developed in 2017. The coffee is processed using the honey method. The CGLE-17 cultivar is noted for its robust resistance and a cup profile reminiscent of classic Gesha, while offering higher crop yields.
Founded in 2020 by Tong Zhang in Chengdu, this micro-specialty roastery emerged from an unexpected journey—a robotics engineer's transformation into coffee artisan after discovering specialty coffee in Paris. Zhang, who placed third in the French Brewers Cup in his first year as a barista, brings technical precision to every roast, using Stronghold S7Pro machines to highlight the unique terroir of each coffee through light profiles that express origin, climate, soil, and the people behind each bean.
