Eder Norman Toledo [Copa de Oro #2 Central Region

Online and café exclusive release! For the past 4 years (and some years before that with smaller regional events), Osito have run the "Copa de Oro" competition in Colombia - running over the 3 main regions they buy coffee from. This is the first year Copa de Oro lots have come to the UK/EU (typically they'd all been snaffled by the US). This lot - the second place winner in the Central region, beaten out only by Hugo González's Gesha (who took top place for the entire competition) is this stunning Rosado lot from producer Eder Norman Toledo. We selected it because it tastes like a pre-2016 Kenya - the richest of purple fruits, we think it's like hot Ribena. With only a single vac-box of green, we're releasing this coffee exclusively for our online store and in the Scenery café. Brew Guide: Best Brewed with: Filter Lightest Roaster Influence: Sometimes the test roast just absolutely nails it and we feel we don't want to make any changes at all. It's a little bit closer to a "light" than a lightest because this coffee has SO much acidity and complementary sweetness that we don't want to take any off the table. Super rich and mouth smacking, it's a fast roast and pretty much straight down the middle for our style of roasting for a coffee like this Best Rested: 4+ Weeks Filter: 62g/L & 96°C, with rest we like to move down to 92°C Espresso: Turbos - 18g to 48g in 22-26s. Excellent soup We're tasting: Incredibly rich fruits of the forest aromatics - blind we'd say this was a classic Kenyan. In the cup it's vimto-esq with blackcurrant, blackberry, cherry, and ripe red gooseberry, with a juicy cloudy apple juice character. The cup is nicely balanced between the intense sweetness and bright acidity with a hint of umami, and as it cools we get a complex herbal/tropical note - reminding us of the vanilla & coconut of fig leaf.