Colombia Los Nogales Red Fruit Passion Washed

コロンビア ロス ノガレス レッドフルーツパッション ウォッシュド

Huila is one of Colombia's most celebrated specialty coffee regions, and among its most progressive producers is Los Nogales, an award-winning farm that has attracted international attention for its innovative approach to coffee processing.

While deeply rooted in Colombia’s coffee-growing tradition, Los Nogales takes a research-driven approach to fermentation, drying, and microbial activity, seeking to reveal the inherent potential of each coffee with greater clarity and precision. Today, this philosophy is carried forward by the next generation of the Hernández family, who oversee the coffee from cultivation through processing at the farm.

The variety behind this Red Fruit Passion lot is Tabi, a Colombian-developed cultivar with Typica, Bourbon, and Timor Hybrid in its genetic lineage. Originally developed to combine disease resistance with high cup quality, Tabi is particularly compelling when grown at elevation and handled with careful processing.

At Los Nogales, this Tabi grows at approximately 1,600 meters, in a small plot of only around 2,000 coffee trees. After harvest, the farm applies different processing approaches according to the character and intended sensory profile of each lot. Red Fruit Passion is one such expression, designed around the vivid sweetness and aromatics of ripe red fruit.

The cup retains the transparency and definition associated with a washed coffee, while the processing amplifies its fruit sweetness and aromatic intensity. Rather than allowing fermentation character to dominate, the profile preserves Tabi’s elegant acidity and intrinsic sweetness within a remarkably clean and articulate structure.

In the cup, ripe strawberry appears first: vibrant, juicy, and intensely sweet. As the coffee cools, it opens into the softer, succulent sweetness of melon, before gradually evolving toward the delicate fruit character of white grape.

Despite its vivid red-fruit expression, the coffee remains poised rather than heavy, without leaning excessively into overt fermentation. The finish is refined and persistent, leaving a graceful white-grape-like sweetness and elegant fruit-toned aftertaste.