- ORIGIN: COLOMBIA
- FARM: LA DINASTIA
- REGION: San Adolfo, Huila
- ALTITUDE: 1450 MSL
- VARIETY: PINK BOURBON
- PROCESS: WASHED (120H)
LA DINASTIA / WILDER LAZO
Wilder Lazo is actually a veterinarian specialized in livestock farming. As the coffee price continued to decline in 2016 and his father fell seriously ill, he decided to bring the family farm up to speed together with his brother.
Wilder started examining soil samples and using targeted nutrients and fertilizers to neutralize the pH value, thereby increasing the availability of nutrients for the coffee trees. He refers to this as precision agriculture.
Wilder Lazo ensures that the soil is very well supplied with nutrients. Then, the fully ripe, extremely large fruits are harvested and washed in water tanks to separate them from impurities and floating beans.
Wilder likes to experiment and this time he just added some oak leaves into a sugar solution, without killing any microbes, and added those to the fermentation of Pink Bourbon. This is still a wild fermentation, so you cannot mix many harvest days or the outcome would be too varied.