Colombia Kenny Adarme

12 oz valve bag

Origin:
Country: Colombia
Farm: La Chorrera
Producer: Kenny Adarme
Elevation: 2200 MASL
Process: Honey
Variety: Caturra/Colombia

Tasting Notes:

Sherbet, Cherry, Vanilla

Roaster's Notes
This beautiful coffee comes to us from Aponte Village in Tablon de Gomez. The coffee cherries were produced by Kenny Adarme and sold in parchment to be further dry milled by Pergamino as part of their exclusive single producers Allied Farmers Project in Medellin. Our Green Coffee Buyer has been working with Pergamino for 9
years and has been buying Kenny’s coffee from the Allied Farmers Project since 2021. Kenny is the inspiration for Victrola's drive to find young hungry coffee producers across the world. His passion and drive to learn and grow proved to us over the years that it is worth our time and effort to find like-minded coffee producers and give them the opportunities to hone their craft on our menu. Watching Kenny grow, year after year, into one of our favorite coffee producers has been an absolute treat. Enjoying this coffee is a multi-year task to taste excellence emerge and watch an underdog story occur in real life. We champion Kenny, and are stoked to share his coffee with you.
Aponte Village is an indigenous reservation area that is geographically part of Colombia but that functions under it’s own elders. The people of Aponte are Inga, a pre-Colombian ethnic group related to the Incas who have inhabited their part of Colombia for more than 500 years. Aponte Village sits tucked in a mountainous backdrop at 2200 MASL in the region of Narino. The town operates as an indigenous reserve, independent from the Colombian government. On the streets, you will see that people continue to wear traditional garments and speak to each other in the local Inga language, a dialect derived from Quecha (the pre-colonial language of people from the Amazons and Andean Mountains). In Aponte’s Society, there is no such thing as private property and farms are owned by the community at large. The town is led by a group of elders called “Cabildo”, and they have final say on how each parcel of land gets cultivated and to ensure that their ancestral laws and traditions are upheld. Coffee has gained approval from the Cabildo elder group due to two major factors: it is a relatively
profitable stable crop and it prevents bigger parcels of land from being used for coca cultivation.
Like all small, medium, and large producers in Colombia, Pergamino spent many years helplessly riding the roller coaster of international coffee prices. They had to invest in their crops without knowing what they would sell for during their 12-year production cycle. They sold their coffee to large exporters, never knowing its unique sensory qualities, whose hands it ended up in or at what price. There was no way to add value to the coffees or receive a fair price for higher quality. This changed when Pergamino started selling coffee directly to roasters and importers around the world, gaining access to a fair and sustainable trade chain that recognized quality. Stepping
off the roller coaster opened up the opportunity for them to help thousands of small coffee farmers to do the same. Today Pergamino works with more than 600 producers of high-quality coffees in different regions of the country. Pergamino is committed to transparency in their partnerships with these farmers, ensuring that profit margins
are clear and value is added by quality goes directly to the producer. The goal is for farmers and their families to see coffee cultivation as a profitable, decent business, and not just a way to survive.