Taste note: sweet and balanced coffee with complex fruity taste of dried fruit, honey; also having an interesting winery and fermented tone that remind us of miso.
Founded by the Rodriguez fmaily, AGRICAFE was established in 1986 and is a family business that manages 12 of its own farms as well as smallholder coffee from across Caranaví and Samaipata. Their smallholder program, “Sol de Mañana”, began in 2013 with 10 small producers and a curriculum focused on nursery and farm management, and specialty harvesting. La Linda is AGRICAFE’s first farm, established in 2012. The farm is located in the colony of Bolinda, which lies in a lush, steep mountain valley around 10 kilometres outside of the town of Caranavi.
Up to that point, AGRICAFE had been exclusively buying and processing coffee from surrounding small farms. La Linda became a point of innovation and best practices for the Caranaví coffee community. Today Agricafe has 12 farms, and around 130 hectares of coffee under the banner of ‘Fincas Los Rodriguez’. Seven of these are in Caranavi, in the department of La Paz, and the remaining five are in Samaipata, in the department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia’s east.
- Origin: Bolivia
- Region: Caranavi
- Producer: AGRICAFE, Rodriguez family
- Estate: La Linda
- Altitude: 1482-1550m
- Cultivar: Caturra, Catuai
- Processing: Anaerobic Washed
- Sourcing: Pebble Coffee