Meet Leonidas Asdrubal Apolo Granda! At the side of his daughter, Mireya, and her husband Freddie, Asdrubal works a five-hectare farm, Nueva Vida, close to Puyango in Loja, southwestern Ecuador. Fifteen years in the past he had a special farm close by that was once destroyed by way of frost. Asdrubal has at all times cherished espresso, having discovered about espresso manufacturing from his father as an adolescent, so when he had the chance in 2017 to shop for this farm he didn’t hesitate.
Nueva Vida is actually a small-scale circle of relatives operation. Excluding Asdrubal, Mireya, and Freddie, they make use of 3-4 pickers all through harvest. Asdrubal supplies them with a weekly salary somewhat than paying in line with the burden of cherries picked.
Caravela, a depended on importer that focuses on Ecuadorian espresso, first imported Asdrubal’s espresso in 2022, and we ended up buying all of the lot! Then our inexperienced espresso purchasing workforce jumped on the probability to discuss with Asdrubal in September 2023 and start up an immediate dating.
Above: inexperienced espresso purchaser Jacob White with Asdrubal and his son-in-law, Freddie.
For the 2023 harvest, Asdrubal produced about 400kg of parchment. This in the long run transformed to round 5 69kg luggage of inexperienced espresso. All his espresso cherry is honey processed on raised and coated beds. The cherry is floated after which fermented in coated tanks for 70 hours. It’s then depulped with out water and brought directly to the raised beds the place it’s circled all through a two-week drying length.
The present lot is predominantly Sarchimor and Acauã. It is candy and complicated within the cup, with a clean frame. We sit up for a fruitful dating with Asdrubal within the coming years!
