About this Coffee
Luis Carlos Gutiérrez runs the specialty side of his family's coffee production in Huila. He is not the landowner; his father is. But he is the one who took it off the commodity track: quality-driven processing, new varieties, small lots decided on the beneficio rather than at the coop counter. By day he works the plots; by night he goes home to Garzón and his two daughters.
His brother still produces traditional parchment. Luis Carlos, a former quality analyst, experiments with Colombia, Caturra, Castillo and Pink Bourbon, including naturals built by trial and error.
This lot comes from Finca Bruselas in the Kennedy vereda near Pitalito, Huila, twelve hectares under coffee alongside six hectares of native forest that feeds the village's water spring.
O'Henry, this natural Caturra lot, is named after the O'Henry peach, a variety known for its large size and deep, sweet flavor: echoing the ripe peach note that runs through the cup.
