123 | El Carpintero
Producer Laureano Gomez | Description Sweet, cherry, caramel, bakers chocolate |
Process Washed | Varietals Variedad Colombia |
Region Nariño | Elevation 1,950 meters |
Position Spot | Warehouse Continental, New Jersey |
In 1985, Laureano returned to San Lorenzo and was able to buy the land that is now El Carpintero. Thirty-eight years later, he still calls the farm home along with his wife, Maria. They raised their two daughters there and are now empty-nesters as both daughters are grown.
Currently planted with 7,000 trees of Variedad Colombia, coffee was not always the main crop at El Carpintero. Laureano recalls a time when coffee was not grown in the region at all as the climate was too cold. He said weather has changed a lot during the years, getting warmer and warmer, making the area hospitable to coffee trees.