Meet Leonidas Asdrubal Apolo Granda! Along side 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 distinct farm within reach that was once destroyed by means of frost. Asdrubal has at all times cherished espresso, having discovered about espresso manufacturing from his father as a young person, so when he had the chance in 2017 to shop for this farm he didn’t hesitate.
Nueva Vida is in reality a small-scale circle of relatives operation. Apart from Asdrubal, Mireya, and Freddie, they make use of 3-4 pickers all the way through harvest. Asdrubal supplies them with a weekly salary quite than paying in response to the load of cherries picked.
Caravela, a relied 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 crew jumped on the likelihood to seek advice from Asdrubal in September 2023 and begin a right away 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 baggage of inexperienced espresso. All his espresso cherry is honey processed on raised and lined beds. The cherry is floated after which fermented in lined tanks for 70 hours. It’s then depulped with out water and brought directly to the raised beds the place it’s circled all the way through a two-week drying duration.
The present lot is predominantly Sarchimor and Acauã. It is candy and complicated within the cup, with a easy frame. We stay up for a fruitful dating with Asdrubal within the coming years!
