Alirio and his wife Anayibe Ortiz are members of Los Guacharos, and they are no strangers to the Small Batch offer list. Alirio has worked hard to specialize in more adventurous varieties- his farm has pink bourbon, bourbon aji, caturra, sidra, chiroso, pacas, ombligón, red bourbon, colombia amarillo, and caturrón varieties, and he and Anayibe just planted laurina and wush wush- and they’re planning to plant sudan rume.

Alirio obtained this caturrón seed from a producer in Acevedo who had noticed that one tree on his farm wasn’t affected by coffee leaf rust, and was more resilient to diseases. Alirio made his own seedbed and
nursery, and planted the seedlings about four years
ago.

This January 2025 purchase is fermented in cherry in woven bags for around 18 hours (shaded), then depulped and fermented without water for 40-60 hours until it’s ready to wash.

Pricing transparency: we paid Alirio $3,475,000 pesos per carga of parchment via our Colombian entity Shared Source SAS.