Familia Cuartas Alvarez

The Cuartas-Alvarez family have farmed this land, passing it from generation to generation, for more than 70 years.  I took over the farm in 2005, just before my father passed away. I took over the running of it in 2005, just before my father died. I have a huge affection for this land, the land where I was born and raised.

I grew up in Quinchia then spent time in London, where I ran my own restaurant.  My professional experience within the London restaurant scene, where the speciality coffee culture has blossomed, inspired me to modify how we run the family farm.  We embraced changes to our working practices so that now all our processes, from cultivation through harvesting, processing to drying are entirely organic and sustainable.

As a family we believe that in life nothing has meaning unless you put passion into it. In our case our passion is for the production of an excellent quality coffee which showcases the flavour of this region. For many years we produced coffee to sell to the local coffee federation, but this year we’ve been really encouraged by the very high scores we’ve been getting in sample tastings to bring our coffee more directly to the market as a single origin denomination. We are now working on the fermentation process to improve the flavour even further.