Producer: Raquel Lasso
Farm: La Bohemia
Region: La Unión, Nariño
Variety: Bourbon Rosado
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1900 masl
Harvested: 2024
 
Cupping notes: Tropical fruits, green mango, oral, green tea, vanilla
 
The farm La Bohemia has been in the hands of Raquel Lasso and her husband, Carlos, for almost 30 years. It is located in the town of Buenos Aires, about 40 minutes from La Union, Nariño, at approximately 2000 meters above sea level. At La Bohemia, they have planted around 10,000 coffee trees, where they focus on practising meticulous and crafted methods.
 
Raquel and Carlos work in perfect balance: Carlos is in charge of processing each lot, ensuring every part of the process is carefully handled. He even tastes the must generated from each coffee being fermented before completing this part of the process. Raquel is responsible for all other innovative projects at the farm. She currently manages a self-sustainable greenhouse project to grow vegetables and generate secondary income while Nariño is not in harvest.
 
This beautiful farm consists of 6 hectares with approximately 20% shade. Due to the altitude, it is often covered in a magical fog.
 
The farm took the top spot at Cup of Excellence Colombia 2022 (La Bohemia, Carlos Alberto Belalcázar) and returned to the podium with 5th place in 2023 (La Bohemia, Raquel Lasso Muñoz).
 
This unique coffee is processed in a meticulous way by Carlos, who is every day on top of each lot at the farm, using his sensory skills to determine the fermentation time! For this Borbon, he processed it for 4 days (96 hours) and finished the fermentation by tasting the mosto, and in his words, "tastes like a good wine." All this occurs while the coffee is in mucilage. Afterwards, the coffee is washed with very little water as the fermentation has helped to detach the mucilage from the bean. It is then sun-dried on raised beds next to Carlos's house and finished with a stabilisation process of 25 days in GrainPro bags before milling.