Colombia Finca Milán NG Culturing Caturra Castillo

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Online advance sale — available here before it reaches the shop. Pink guava and rose lead, blackberry fills the middle, and a long vanilla–white tea sweetness carries the finish. From Café UBA's innovation farm in Risaralda.

Coffee Information

• Country: Colombia
• Region: Pereira, Risaralda — Finca Milán (Vereda El Hogar)
• Producer: Julio César Madrid Tisnés — Café UBA
• Altitude: 1,600 m
• Variety: Caturra, Castillo
• Process: Culturing (NG nitrogen co-fermentation), washed
• Drying: Sun-dried
• Harvest: April 2026

Café UBA's Proving Ground

Finca Milán is the second-largest farm in the Café UBA alliance, alongside La Riviera and Buenos Aires, sitting at 1,600m near Los Nevados National Park. Third-generation producer Julio César Madrid Tisnés once ran it as a conventional farm growing washed Castillo and Caturra. Today it is the group's innovation plot — the place where new processes are tested before they reach the rest of the alliance, and where more than twenty varieties grow across the wider estate.

What 'Culturing' Actually Means

Culturing inoculates the cherry with a starter culture of yeasts and bacteria isolated from the farm's own trees, fed with an energy substrate built from local fruit. The lot ferments under restricted oxygen before it is washed and sun-dried. The 'NG' — New Generation — designation adds a controlled nitrogen co-fermentation on top. The point is repeatability: a deliberate, measurable route to flavours a conventional washed process simply cannot reach.

Flavor Profile

• 🍈 Pink guava
• 🌹 Rose
• 🍦 Vanilla
• 🫐 Blackberry
• 🍵 White tea finish