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This washed chiroso lot is the entirety of jhon didier trujillo's first harvest as well as his first export and presents with a dense, sugared cup with bright tamarind-like acidity. From christopher: when my friends at unblended told me that they were working with a new producer in their network one who had never exported to the u.S. Before i asked to taste the coffee and to learn more. Even in years when prices in the local market are strong, coffee as an export product offers the potential for stronger prices and greater resiliency to market volatility. I knew that the work unblended was doing in opening specialty export channels could be transformative for a smallholder the other side of that equation is that it requires a buyer. I cupped jhon didier's coffee blind on a table with 11 other offers from three exporters and fell in love with its sweetness, structured acidity and intensity of flavor. I was surprised to learn that this was not just his first export but also his first year of production. In the best case, it takes a coffee tree three years to produce typically, though, it can take anywhere from 4-5 years for a tree to reach full production. This means that for someone looking to begin growing coffee, it's an investment one with an uncertain outcome. When he decided to begin growing coffee, he planted what he called caturra chiroso using seeds he got from carmen montoya, whose father got seedlings from fabian castrillon, who brou...