Descriptors
Cupping profile SCA 2004
The La Gaviota farm is a family coffee project located in the municipality of La Argentina, at an altitude of 1,900 meters. Farmers Leider Ivan Benavides and Andrea Marcela Ferreira started this project in 2017. They bought a small plot of land and planted it with several thousand coffee trees of the Castillo and Pink Bourbon varieties. From the very beginning, their goal was to produce microlots with traditional washed processing, and over time they decided to replace the Castillo trees with varieties with more powerful genetics. At present, the farm has 2,000 Pink Bourbon trees, 1,000 Papayo and 2,000 Catimor.
In 2025, Leiner and Andrea acquired another small farm (El Cedro) right nearby and planted it with 1,300 trees of the Pink Bourbon variety and 700 Geisha trees. The first harvest from the new farm is expected in 2027.
Process details
The process begins with the manual and selective harvesting of the coffee cherries, ensuring only ripe cherries in optimal condition are collected. The coffee undergoes an initial wash. Subsequently, a flotation process in water is performed to separate and remove damaged or low-density cherries.
After selection, the whole cherries are placed in 200-liter plastic tanks, where a first fermentation stage of 24 hours takes place.
Once this stage is finished, the coffee is depulped, removing the pulp and leaving the beans covered in their mucilage layer, then it moves to a second stage of fermentation in mucilage for 36 hours. During this period, circular movements are performed every 2 hours to promote fermentation homogeneity.
Once the fermentation time is complete, the coffee is carefully washed to remove mucilage residues and stop the fermentation process.
Subsequently, it is taken to dry in a parabolic dryer for 25 days; during the drying process, the coffee is moved 3 to 4 times a day in a uniform and constant manner.
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