Familia Vergara - Thermal Shock Natural

by Black & White

MEET THE PRODUCERS | At ages 23 and 25 years old, Nestor and Adrian Lasso are some of the youngest players in the game. Five years ago, they took over the family farm and set their sights on specialty coffee. They soon teamed up with Jhoan Vergara, a relative and fellow son-of-a-coffee-farmer, to create the farm known as El Diviso, where the trio continuously seeks to improve processing protocols and flavor outcomes. Though their parents were commodity coffee farmers, Nestor, Adrian, and Jhoan have taken a profound interest in specialty coffee production, in part because of its potential for real economic development - but also because they each have a passion for coffee production in general and experimental processes (like thermal shock!) in particular. By combining their knowledge and experience to improve production quality, Nestor, Adrian, and Jhoan hope to help other farmers and producers see that coffee is "a much more noble product than perhaps it first may seem." This coffee,