José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernandez began the Coffea Diversa adventure, their botanical garden, in the early 2000s. We met them through Felipe Contreras of Finca Gascon, and to have his coffees in our catalog is a real stroke of luck.
The Abysinnia variety is a very recent natural mutation. It is a wild Ethiopian variety collected in south-west Ethiopia by the legendary Dutch botanist P.J.S Cramer in the early 1920s and taken to Indonesia in 1928.
The coffee is selected in its optimum state of ripeness, then fermented in an anaerobic environment for 48 hours. The coffee is then pulped, before drying on raised beds for 3 weeks.
