FARM: La Virginia

ELEVATION: 1700 masl

VARIETIES: Colombia

REGION: Tarqui

Neider Criollo Betancourt is a young, quality focused coffee farmer in Colombia. He's been refining his processing over the past few years to develop some incredible coffees. His farm sits on a steep slope where he created an innovative transfer tube running to the top of the farm. When he collects ripe cherries, he drops them into a concrete hopper and sends them over a half mile down the hillside in the buried tube. He created his own wet mill carved into a hillside where it dumps the peeled cherries below to be transported onto drying patios.