Scenery Coffee - Elizabeth Gonzalez Washed Castillo - Tolima, Colombia - 200g - 05/07

Realy nice washed castillo. Not normally a hyped varietal, but this is one of the best I've had. Some soft sweet notes, mild acidity, and interesting herbality.

For the last two years, we've booked LaREB lots that arrive with the summer container - those very same lots that will be in the process of harvesting and milling now. But we found ourselves looking at the buying calendar and seeing some gaps open up, between a jam-packed summer (we may have got excited and overbooked...) and the end of the winter/spring seasons, and sure enough there was some coffee left arriving from Scenery pals LaREB. Having felt a bit funk heavy at times, we loved how this lot stood out as sweet, clean and the sort of thing you could absolute pound mugs of batch from - a little bit of extra acidity and complexity from the longer processing, but underneath, clean sweet high altitude Castillo as is the classic tradition.

Tasting notes: Gooseberry, baked apple, brown sugar