Tasting notes: Sweet, smooth, chocolatey.

Coffee breakdown:
Country: Colombia
Variety: decaffeinated in Colombia under instruction using Ethyl Acetate derived from sugar-cane.
Process: Natural sugarcane EA decaffeination
Producer: Various smallholder producers in Huila

This regional blend from Huila is built from microlots from Small Batch's portfolio producers. These are all smallholders, ecological farmers, all paid under the livelihood model. This is Small Batch's initiative to provide economic security to its producers even when their coffees don't quite make the cut as exceptional microlots, and it is proud of this coffee and what it means on the ground.

Small Batch purchases all of its Colombian coffee directly from smallholder producers, and when it says 'direct' it literally means it: smallholders are paid in Colombian pesos, from Small Batch's bank account to theirs, or with a cheque, or with cash if they don't have a bank account. The coffee is bought as parchment and paid for, in full, upon delivery to the mill. Small Batch then takes charge of the parchment, contracting the milling service and the decaffeination process in Manizales, and exports via its Colombian company, Shared Source S.A.S.

This coffee is decaffeinated in Colombia using a natural sugarcane method.