For today's release, we have the highly anticipated followup to the El Obraje Gesha Washed release back in February. We received a number of DMs and emails of folks telling us that was their favorite Shoebox release of all time, so we knew we had to grab more from El Obraje on the next round from our export partners at PROCAAL. Here we have 2 very unique flavor profiles, featuring lots of green notes and our first ever Maracaturra.

Colombia El Obraje:
Pablo Guerrero's farm, El Obraje in Tangua just outside of Pasto, has been in his family for many years and originally began as a wheat farm. In the 1990s, the Colombian government began importing wheat, crashing the price of domestic production. During the search for a more profitable crop, Pablo planted the first coffee trees on El Obraje in the year 2000, the very first of his neighbors to do so. In 2009, Pablo built his very own wet mill and processing facility at El Obraje where he began pursuing quality improvements and selling specialty coffee. From there, he began doing fermentation experiments, producing everything from traditional naturals and washed to anaerobic and held in cherry lots.
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Maracaturra Washed:
A cross between Maragogype and Caturra. Maracaturra presents with extremely large beans and an impressively high quality ceiling, while maintaining high yield. Though it's susceptible to Coffee Leaf Rust disease, its short stature and abundant foliage make it great for high wind environments like you'll find at the soaring altitudes of El Obraje. This particular lot was first picked at peak ripeness before undergoing an immediate 96hr dry fermentation in sealed plastic bags. After this, it was depulped and floated, then placed in sealed plastic tanks dry for another 24hrs without mucilage. Finally, they were fully washed and dried for 22 days on raised beds. In the cup, we find a sweet, lactic bodied, green note of pistachio ice cream while hot, before it cools into a more nuanced array of violet florals, blood orange acidity, and a sweet matcha finish to round it off.
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Pink Bourbon Washed:
This classically processed pink bourbon lot was first floated and sorted before undergoing a 36hr held in cherry step, then depulped and fermented dry for 12 hours in plastic barrels. This simple, clean processing allowed the varietal to really shine with a huge matcha limeade note right up front, accented by perfumey jasmine florals around the edges. As it cooled, a really lovely granny smith apple note rose to the surface presenting an abundance of sweet-tart goodness.