Colombia | Jaime Burbano

Region: Muralla, San Augustin, Colombia
Variety: Pink Bourbon
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1750 Masl
We Taste: Wineberry, Plum,  Black Tea

Jaime Burbano is a multi-generational farmer in San Augustin and was instrumental in the early days of the Monkaaba group and assisted founders in the Ortega-Gomez family in setting up the community cupping lab at their farm.

Monkaaba is an initiative aimed at assisting smallholder producers in finding better market access and better prices for their coffees, and helps invest in them to ensure their future success.  The leaders of the Monkaaba group are educating producers on how the supply chain works so that they can better navigate it, while helping them to improve growing, harvesting, and processing techniques. They also host open weekly cuppings to improve producers' ability to evaluate and understand their coffees while they receive feedback from other members. These open dialogues about pricing, quality, and the market are helping to create a more robust community of smallholder farmers in San Augustin, and is rooted in the importance of collaboration. 

Though Jaime has been producing high quality coffee for many years, it wasn't until working with Monkaaba that Jaime was able to sell his coffee under his own name, rather than having it blended into larger regional lots. Because of this work, Jaime now has stronger and more direct relationships with roasters, providing him with not only higher prices but with buyers intent on durable, long-term relationships.  We are excited at the prospect of being one of those roasters, and this is our third year in a row purchasing Jaime’s coffee. In the past, Jaime has been producing mostly caturra, but this year, his younger pink bourbon trees produced enough to separate and export. For the first harvest, the quality is already very impressive and is still highly reminiscent of coffees we've previously had from Jaime with excellent structure and complexity. The overall cup is rooted in dark brambly fruit flavors like blackberry and wineberry with underlying aromatics of black tea and baking spices.

Price Breakdown:

Our Total Cost: coming soon
Packaging, labor, and weight loss: coming soon
Green Price: $7.29/lb
FOB Price: coming soon
Farm Gate Price: coming soon

Importer: Semilla

*We roast on Tuesdays and ship the following day; order cutoff is 7:00 am Tuesday morning