Colombia La Fantasia Decaf - CM Natural

Orders are roasted on Tuesday and dispatched from Wednesday

Tasting notes of orange, peach, ripe banana, strawberry, raisin

Varietal: Castillo
Process: CM Natural
Altitude: 1,600 - 1,700 m

A delicious experience without the caffeine hit. Who says decaf has to come with a sacrifice in cup quality? With this CM Natural process, this is one of the best decaf we have ever tasted as the experiencec is as close to having non-decaffeinated coffee as it gets.

To help remove the caffeine, Project Origin use a natural by-product of fermented sugar cane and fresh spring water to wash out the caffeine from the beans. This still conserves the blends soft orange and chocolate flavours and aroma. Sourced by Project Origin, this coffee is a regional blend from the Huila region.

About La Fantasia

Producer Guillermo Hormaza and his wife Elsa inherited the family farm La Fantasia from Elsa’s parents, and they bought the remaining rights from her siblings to have sole ownership. For over 15 years, Guillermo and Elsa have cultivated coffee, but it has only been in the last few years that they have worked to produce specialty grade coffee. After noticing the price differences compared to the expenses involved in producing coffee, Guillermo found that La Fantasia’s harvests were unprofitable in the commodity market, and this sparked the need for change. Since 2019, Guillermo and Elsa have worked exclusively with Project Origin. They have worked smart and hard to adjust their processing and harvesting techniques, such as only picking cherries when ripe, adjusting the soil fertilisation, and pulping on the same day as picking. These small differences have made big changes to their quality. Project Origin’s aim is to work with La Fantasia to build together a sustainable model farm, that could in the future be replicated to other farms throughout the region. This work involves us buying 100% of the coffee La Fantasia produces. We work with 65% of their total production as our Regional La Fantasia lot and use the remaining harvest towards creating controlled fermentation coffees, including our new carbonic maceration processed decaf offering. We are proud to present these controlled fermentation coffees in conjunction with the trusted Regional offering, and we believe this approach could help us build an economically sustainable future for Guillermo, Elsa and La Fantasia