Las Marias - Colombia

Our Pearls collection showcases extraordinary coffees. From rare varieties to unique processing methods, these coffee have something special to make them stand out with an average cupping score above 90 points. Just like a pearl from the ocean, these coffee beans are delicate and beautiful beyond words.

Café1959 is a coffee company led by a third-generation coffee producer, Jose Giraldo in Colombia. With his unique background in food engineering, Jose uses innovative methods in coffee production. Café1959 believes in shared passion, and in the power of co-creating - to help each other in every step to create an extraordinary cup. We are excited to have another coffee by Jose in our line-up, following El Diamante and Las Flores.

This lot of Geisha was grown on Finca Las Marias, the newest farm of the Giraldo family. The farm is located in Pijao, Quindio, a very small town in the heart of the Andes Mountains. When Jose discovered the land that had been abandoned for over 20 years, it was in a messy state overgrown with weed and filled with invasive plant species. However, he also found some quality coffee cherries in the middle of the chaos, including 70 year old Typica varietal trees. This showed promising potential for the fertility of the land, leading Jose to adopt Geisha seeds from Panama to plant on Las Marias.

Jose is known for using unique processing techniques, to enhance the coffee's natural flavor, prioritizing sustainability in every step of his process. This coffee has undergone a meticulous double washed process, which begins by picking the cherries at at perfect moment, when the Brix degree (sugar content) is above 22. After harvest, the cherries are processed at a drying station at La Clarita, where the cherries are pulped and placed into closed tanks for 24hr anaerobic fermentation. The cherries are then washed, and placed again into a dry closed tank for another 24 hr anaerobic fermentation. Then, the cherries are washed again and placed on raised beds to dry. This unique processing method on the renown Geisha variety results in sweet notes of candied lemon, and floral notes of orange blossom and jasmine.