Nativo Nogales - Natural Mosto Caturra - Pitalito, Colombia

Producer: Hernandez Family
Location: El Diamante Village, Huila
Variety: Caturra
Process: Natural, Mosto
Harvest: 2025/2026
Importer: Forest Coffees

Contract Price: $14.89 

About Colombia: Colombian coffee producers are incredibly innovative. In response to decades devastating coffee rust disease, they developed high quality disesase resistant varietals like Colombia and Castillo. As the specialty coffee industry has evolved, they've been at the forefront inventing delicious new techniques for fermenting coffee, vastly expanding the range of flavors possible in the cup. Coffee from Colombia can't be easily generalized, but it's particularly famous for malic acidity (think apple & pear), big sweetness, and delicate florals on the aroma. 

About Natural Process Coffee: The oldest method of processing coffee. The coffee cherres are dried in the sun with skin and mucilage intact before depulping, leading to significant changes in flavor, sweetness, and acidity. The process is overall simpler than washed, but to procuce high quality natural coffees a lot of monitoring and care is necessary, requiring the constant removal of individual cherries that begin to rot or over-ferment. The final product is very sweet, and presents distinctive winey flavors and red fruit acidity.

About Mosto: Mosto is a microbe-rich liquid taken from the fermentation step of coffee or other fruit. This liquid is then used to introduced to a secondary coffee to kickstart fermentation, allowing producers a higher level of control over the quality of flavor, acidity, sweetness, and mouthfeel of their product.