![]() La Palma’s small wet mill is designed to showcase how fermentation can encourage coffees to show flavors you could only dream of. The coffee is picked as it ripens by a team of women whose job is to make pass after pass, day after day, to choose only the best cherries. The farm has a unique layout with each variety planted in an artful way that encourages exceptional production and is also beautiful. Over the course of the Onyx shared experience with the team of La Palma Y El Tucán, it is clear that Felipe and Elisa have a unique passion and vision for Colombian coffee. In 2017, Dakota, Green Buyer for Onyx, spent four months living in a cabin on the farm learning the intricacies of coffee production and QC cupping on a farm level, which was instrumental in him finding his way to the Onyx team. This partnership runs deeper than just transactions across countries but spans years of meals, trips, failed experiments, and shared victories. This initial meeting launched a years-long friendship and partnership that produced an article in Fresh Cup Magazine and resulted in Onyx being one of the first coffee roasters to purchase from La Palma. ![]() Our shared history spans back to 2013, when Jon Allen, co-owner of Onyx, first met Filipe and Elisa when sourcing coffee in Colombia. We turn to them each season not only for high-end competition lots but also for each season’s special releases. Time and time again, La Palma y El Tucán has proven their greatness by producing some of the world’s best micro-lots. Taking into account their new biodiversal program, which creates organic fertilizers and disperses them amongst participants in the N&C program, any producer who chooses to partner with La Palma reaps the many benefits offered. This program spans the region, oftentimes helping producers subsidize the high cost of coffee production by fetching a high price for a small amount of their production. As a part of the Neighbors and Crops program, Reinel has access to agronomy support throughout the year, as well as having a picking team dispatched in order to harvest this lot for processing at La Palma’s central mill. ![]() This coffee is produced by Reinel Ceron and processed by La Palma y El Tucan.
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