David Ruben Gomez

Variety: 100% Gesha

Farm: Finca El Refugio

Region: La Plata, Huila, Colombia

Elevation: 1,960 Meters

Harvest: August 2024

Process: Washed

Notes: Persimmon, golden grapes & panela. 

David Gomez has produced a fruited and viscous Gesha for us this season. Cup notes include marmalade, honey, persimmon and red cherry sweetness. The profile of this Gesha is full bodied and heavily weighted with stewed fruits. Gomez' Gesha has rainier cherry, Golden Muscat grape and panela-esque characterizations. There are also very subtle notes of rose that are especially enhanced with espresso brews. As a filter option, this a well balanced and delightfully sweet profile.

This is an excellent prodcution of the famed Gesha variety. What is fun, is that we get to taste this variety as more fruit-forward side of the spectrum. That said, there are gentle floral notes that pop up at the cooler stages of the brew. The structure is firm and well balanced.

David Ruben Gomez has been producing coffee for over 20 years now. He comes from a coffee-growing family made up of many brothers. His ventures towards better coffees and higher margins has lead him to us in the Specialty market. He's working on planting more exotic varietals out his nursery soon. He currently grows Gesha, Caturra and V.Colombia strains. He is settled in the Vereda of La Florida in La Plata's scapes. He's managed to build an incredible farm on his plot of four hectares (approx. 10 acres).