Christmas Coffee 2025: Parceros, Colombia

Clementine, Chocolate Truffle, Cranberry Jelly

Producers: Group of 12 Producers 
Country: Colombia
Region: Tolima
Variety: Caturra
Process: Washed

Established Christmas Coffee 2025 is here, and it's an exceptional single-varietal lot from Colombia. With tasting notes of clementine, chocolate truffle, and cranberry jelly our festive coffee this year celebrates friendship and working together.

'Parcero' is a term, used in Colombia, for a friend & this lot brings together a group of friends in Tolima, who have decided to keep the tradition of high quality Caturra production alive.

Caturra requires more attention and effort than some other varietals so the decision to preserve it was made with tradition & quality in mind.

Selective manual selection of the ripe caturra cherries is the foundation of the quality you'll experience in the cup. The cherries then follow one of two paths - some cherries undergo in-cherry fermentation for around 24-36 hours before pulping, whilst the remaining cherries are pulped immediately. After both of these phases occur the pulped cherries are submerged in traditional tiled-covered tanks, with this phase lasting 24 to 50 hours before the washed coffee is dried on raised beds in a marquesina (type of covered shelter that enables skilled, elongated drying phases whilst protecting the coffee from rain).

This well-controlled & intentional processing is the reason for the balance of sweetness, rich fruit notes, and rounded mouthfeel that makes this coffee a perfect Yuletide brew.

If you're brewing filter then you'll get lots of sweet and vibrant orange (think orange sherbet or even blood orange), the full-bodied nature of the brew means it's like toffee, then the red berry note is very much bright cranberry.

If you're making espresso on these colder, winter mornings you'll experience candied orange peel, the red fruit becomes deeper and more intense so it can be like red wine, with the sweetness being very reminiscent of chocolate truffles.

From all of the team at Established we wish you a merry Christmas, and raise a cup to friendship & the new year ahead.