In an effort to ensure our coffees offer the optimal brew for all coffee enthusiasts, we continually strive to source the highest quality specialty coffee beans from across the coffee-growing region. As your hometown coffee roastery, we pride ourselves on traveling to the farms of our coffee producers to follow through on our passion for high quality sustainably grown coffees.
Through October, we will be featuring a coffee coming to us from our Deeper Roots Coffee family, Colombia Tolima. Through a more than 10-year-old relationship with exporting partners, Pergamino Coffee Exporters, we bring you this coffee from the region of Tolima in the district of Ibagué.
In November 2013, Adam Shaw, the director of coffee for Deeper Roots Coffee, our sister company, traveled to the coffee-producing region of Tolima to see first-hand the quality of the coffee farms along with their partners Pergamino Coffee Exporters. While there, Adam had the privilege of visiting 5 different farms and was able to cup coffee with the farmers. Fast-forward more than 10 years and Deeper Roots and Vienna Coffee continue their relationship with this amazing coffee-producing region.
ABOUT THE COFFEE
(from our exporting partner, Pergamino Coffee Exporters)
“Ibagué is the capital of Tolima, a well-known coffee-producing region of Colombia. Although most of the coffee from this state comes from its Southern region of Planadas and Chaparral, we decided to focus on the less well-known coffee-growing areas around Ibagué. In the towns of China Alta and Anzoetegui, Pergamino works with around 50 growers to deliver their coffees to our logistical ally in Ibagué, where we have a warehouse and a cupping lab. Growers usually bring lots of around 100-500kgs of parchment, which we analyze one by one before deciding to incorporate them into the lots we are building for export.
The city is also known as the “Ciudad del Abanico” or the city of the folding fan, because when you look at it from the sky, the way its rivers spread out of the mountains, creating farms for rice and cotton, looks like a beautiful handmade folding fan. Initially known during colonial times for its rich gold mines, Ibagué is known as a bustling metropolis of 400,000 people who are truly connected to the coffee-growing area around it.”
At Vienna Coffee Co., we take the time to roast and cup this delicious coffee and dial in on a roasting profile that produces the best flavors in the cup.
Tasting Notes: subtle tasting notes of walnut, peach, and brown sugar
Roast Level: Light
Acidity: bright and lively
Body: heavy and full
This coffee will be available on bar at our coffee shop in Maryville, by the bag in our retail space, and easy to purchase online. Try out a bag today!
Ibague, Tolima, Colombia
At Vienna Coffee Company…
Our dedication to ensuring that we are a market leader in craft coffee throughout the southeast dictates that we apply the same critical scrutiny used for our complete coffee lineup to any product we offer.
This commitment demonstrates our continued pursuit to provide craft coffee that enriches the lives of customers and producers alike by providing an experience grounded in excellence and hospitality. We custom pick our green coffee beans from regions across The Coffee Belt and always seek responsible sourcing from seed to cup.
Our roasting team ensures each bean varietal is roasted according to its characteristics to enhance its peak flavors. Vienna Coffee Company goes further by evaluating each varietal harvest through coffee cuppings to evaluate and adjust its roasting profile.
Explore our complete line of coffees online or stop by the Coffee House and let our baristas do the brewing for you. We hope that exploring what we offer (whether its organic, single-origin, a VCC custom blend or your favorite flavored coffee) continues your journey in discovering that “Great Coffee is an Adventure”.