Anxious - Sour Sweet Indifference

guava, pineapple, orange wine

Origin: Huila, Colombia

Farm: La Terazza Estate

Grower: Juliana Guevara & Wbeimar Lasso

Altitude: 1900 masl

Cultiavar:  Pink Bourbon

Process: Moderate Intervention Fermented Natural

The Story

Anxious is an emo/hardcore band from Fairfield County, Connecticut established in 2016. Their 2022 debut Little Green House won favor with fans and critics, paving the way for an extensive touring schedule. The ambitious sophomore follow up Bambi, set to redefine the band while still maintaining their roots. Pulling influence on everything from The Smashing Pumpkins, to Jimmy Eat World, to Animal Collective, the record delivers a refreshing and unique sonic presentation of the genre with strong songwriting at the forefront. 

At C&T we have always been strong proponents of merging our passion for music & art with our passion for roasting & serving exceptional coffee. This spurred our desire to work with a great band that shares the same sentiment.

Notes from the Importer:

This is a moderate intervention fermented natural Pink Bourbon (aka Rosado) cultivar coffee from Huila, Colombia, produced by Juliana Guevara and Wbeimar Lasso on their farm, La Terraza. This particular coffee comes from one of the highest plots on Juliana and Wbeimar’s family farm.

Pink Bourbon, once thought to be phenotype of the centuries-old bourbon lineage, now known as a descendent of an Ethiopian landrace, expresses a rose-colored cherry pigmentation when ripe as opposed to the more common red, and sometimes yellow, cultivars. Southern Huila has become a kind of niche market for Pink Bourbon. Enterprising farmers have isolated, propagated, and promoted the cultivar, along with the idea of its uniquely delicate cup quality, which many roasters find to be true. We love the Pink Bourbon microlots from La Terraza, in all their expressions. Juliana has a strong affection for the cultivar, calling it “kind” and “generous” in the cup—amenable to different processing manipulations and always delicious.   

The farm is very passionately run—with a delightful and educational Instagram account no less (@Fincalaterraza). Finca La Terraza resembles countless farms in this part of Colombia, being only a few hectares in size and in a very specific microclimate that encourages coffee trees to fruit nearly the full calendar year—requiring constant monitoring and harvesting in small quantities. We regularly carry their coffees at the Crown.  

La Terraza has a number of separated varieties, including Pacamara, yellow Colombia, and Gesha. The farm’s elevation means a cool climate with particularly frigid nights, which retards everything in coffee production that is temperature dependent, including the maturation of cherry on the tree, fermentation, and the drying of parchment.   

This natural Pink Bourbon was hand-picked by La Terraza’s permanent labor force, who are considered by Juliana and Weimar to be calibrated to each cultivar’s unique ripening patterns. Once picked, the coffee was macerated in full cherry in the farm’s fermentation tanks for 18-24 hours, and then immediately moved to exposed drying tables in full sun, where it spent 25-30 days to fully dry in the farm’s cold high-elevation climate.  

Terra Coffee SAS is a local producer group, established in 2016 by Weimar and Juliana, with a narrow focus on developing high quality coffees alongside select producers in the Huila and Nariño departments, and sharing them with the world. The small company manages one single producer association in each department where they work, “Ecoterra” in Nariño, with 140 producer partners, and “Terra Verde” in Huila, with 120.   

For Terra Coffee SAS as a whole, quality in coffee is very rationally understood as a direct pathway to well-being for volume-limited, small coffee farming families. Driving their business model is an understanding that quality results from small harvests have direct impacts on not just the farm owner, but the many dependents on each small farm, including young children, older adults, and the women of the household performing essential labor that often goes unpaid. By increasing quality and placing microlots in the market, Terra Coffee SAS plans not only to increase prices to growers and their families, but also increase their sense of pride in the details of their work.