Campo Claro Chiroso

Our Campo Claro Chiroso hails from four coffee growing families in Huila, Colombia who banded together under the Palestina Crop Management program, a collaborative origin model that emphasizes elevated cup quality and regenerative agriculture (a sustainable growing model that stresses environmentally-friendly growing practices, sustainable land management, and worker safety/well-being). This single variety lot is so satiny and geisha-like. Our cuppers adored the sparkly, fruit forward acidity and we identified so many fun fruit notes in this unique cup including fruity pebbles, honeysuckle, tangerine, honey, blueberry, and lemon hard candy. We gave this lot top scores when we blind cupped it (a hard thing to do among the professionals at our roastery) and highly recommend this coffee for lovers of elegant, yet fun, geisha-like coffees. 

Precision and discipline are the guiding principles in the harvesting and post-harvest practices of this coffee lot. Cherries are selectively harvested at optimal ripeness, followed by flotation and careful hand selection to ensure uniformity. Fermentation extends for 72 hours, after which the coffee is slowly dried in canopies for 15 to 22 days, preserving clarity, structure, and aromatic complexity. Operating under principles of sustainability, economic viability, and social well-being, the Palestina Crop Management contributes to improving livelihoods for farming families while setting a benchmark for expressive and high-performing coffees shaped through collective effort. 

About the Variety-Shrouded in Mystery. There is little known about how the Chiroso variety made its way to where it was discovered growing wildly in Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia. The genetics of the coffee say it is most closely related to Ethiopia Landrace varieties, yet here it was discovered in the mountains of Colombia growing along side more common varieties like Caturra. No one knows how it got there. What is known, is that this rare variety offers up an elevated cup quality that mimics the florality of the Geisha variety and the sweetness/silky body of the Pink Bourbon variety. The name Chiroso means “big” or “bumpy” and is thought to be named because its elongated shape resembles achiras, a traditional and imperfectly shaped Colombian biscuit. While there is much to learn about how this variety found its way to Colombia, what we do know is that the cup value and sensory characteristics speak for themselves.