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Subscription Coffee Tasting - April 2025

Welcome to the April 2025 episode of our subscription coffee tasting series. Dear Subscriber, I recently came back from a very inspiring trip to Central America and Colombia, where we just launched one of our biggest projects to date that will hopefully have a massive impact on all the farms we work with, the environment, and also the quality of the coffees we buy and the lives of the people who grow it. To give you the short version, we will be testing biological growing techniques alongside the conventional techniques that the farmers are already using. The goal is to convert all the farms from being dependent on nitrogen fertilisers, pesticides and fungicides, to focusing on bringing back the health of the soils in order to grow trees with better health, without the use of damaging chemicals and mineral fertilisers. Some of this work already started many years ago, and this month's coffees reflect that journey. Since 2012, I have personally spent several months a year at Finca Tamana in Colombia, where I have worked closely with Elias Roa and Bellanid Sanchez in order to improve the coffees on their farm. When we first started working together, their coffees were scoring an average of 83 points, which for us is not coffee we would normally even consider buying. But I like a big challenge, and since 2012 we have made many improvements to the farm together. We have looked at almost every step in the production – from stopping the use of herbicides to planting new cultivars of coffee, planting shade trees, improving the processing, drying, storage and logistics. In the last three years, the average score of Elias and Bellanid's coffees has been around 86.5 points, which for traditional cultivars like Castillo, Caturra and Variedad Colombia is probably the upper limit of what we can achieve for washed coffees from this area in Huila. These cultivars are the coffees we are sending out this month, and they represent the benchmark quality from this farm. Last year, the farm was heavily affected by El Niño, which meant almost no rain throughout the whole year. Regardless of this, Elias and Bellanid were able to produce a lot of good quality coffees. The coffees arrived in Norway in December, and we are just about to launch more coffees from Finca Tamana in the coming months. Let's taste them: 00:00 Subscription coffee tasting 08:06 Finca Tamana Variedad Colombia 09:14 Finca Tamana Variedad Colombia flavour notes 11:22 Finca Tamana Caturra 12:07 Finca Tamana Caturra flavour notes 13:49 Finca Tamana Castillo Tambo 15:04 Finca Tamana Castillo Tambo flavour notes To subscribe to our coffees, visit: https://timwendelboe.no/product/tims-... Learn how to set up a Coffee Cup Tasting w/ Tim Wendelboe here:    • Coffee Cup Tasting w/ Tim Wendelboe   Learn more about Finca Tamana here: https://timwendelboe.no/farms-we-buy-... Music by my uncle Jens Wendelboe.