Jose Uribe Lasso founded El Diviso farm in 1997 and has since expanded it to being a family enterprise, working with his three adult sons, Jonathon, Adrian and Nestor, who are involved in farm management and production. This trio of up and coming producer brothers are excited by new manufacturing methods and interesting processes. They are keenly experimenting with extended or anaerobic fermentations, oxidation, and re-introduction of coffee mucilage juices to the cherry during processing.
El Diviso is in the Normandia district northwest of Huila’s Brucellas, Pitalito region of Colombia. This 14 hectare farm harvests once every year, in the tight window between October and December, ensuring its coffee crop is only ever picked at peak ripeness.
This elegant and complex washed coffee results from a mutation of an Ethiopian Landrace variety, it is called Aji, meaning chili in Spanish, thanks to the unique smell it emits during early fermentation, uncannily similar to fresh chili peppers. Look for delicate and sugary floral notes with tropical juice and zesty citrus notes.
