While we will miss our Finca La Suiza from the same producing family, we heartily welcome the Finca Samaria Tabi. Samaria Coffee is a story of immigrants from Antioquia, hard working people and with a great love for family and work in the field. The story begins with immigrants from Jardin Antioquia area. Mr. Gerardo Escobar Mesa and Mrs. Enriqueta Ceballos were an adventurous couple of entrepreneurs who came to Belén de Umbria in 1934. Belén de Umbria belongs to Risaralda in Colombia located in the Western Cordillera and is one of the 14 Municipalities; its economy is based on agriculture and coffee is the main source of income. Belumbrense´s land is located in a small town, with very fertile soils and optimal climate for the coffee industry. There, Mr. Gerardo and Mrs. Enriqueta began Samaria history with the purchase of a small piece of land. Over the years, Mr. Gerardo began consolidating what is now Finca Samaria through the purchase of small neighboring farms. Currently flourishing in its fourth generation some eighty years later, the land is still devoted to coffee cultivation, preserving the inherited strength of Mr. Gerardo and his constant concern for the excellence of product issuing from their land. Average annual rainfall is 2263 mm and the average temperature of the Farm is 19 degrees Celsius. Farms cultivate coffee on environmentally-sustainable plots between 1000 and 2000 meters. These special microclimates are located in the middle intertropical zone that confers characteristics of rain, high humidity in the air and low oscillations of the temperature during the year which helps to the consistency of the profile of the cup.Finca Samaria has always produced an exceptional coffee from the Tabi variety, which was bred (crossing existing varietals Typica, Bourbon and Timor) in the 1970s for its resistance to the dreaded coffee leaf rust disease, very good yield and effervescent tasting notes. Tabi bears a great physical similarity to the Bourbon, the most dominant in this mutation. The main difference is the height of the Tabi trees, which are considered to be almost 10% taller on average than those of the Bourbon. In our light-medium light roast, top notes are dark chocolate, caramel and stone fruits and the sweet nuttiness of fine Colombians, and is an excellent pourover/drip/AeroPress.