Colombia Yorgeny Torres

Raspberry Lime Caramel

Yorgeny Torres’s coffee returns once again! If 9 Swans is Elm’s flagship, Yorgeny Torres is our deep cut: a long time favorite for both regular Elm drinkers and us, we’ve carried it every year. Yorgeny’s coffee is always a stalwart example of what we love to serve at Elm: approachable and exceptional coffee, attentively cared for by small producers interested in both quality and ecology. In the cup, the usual raspberry and tropical fruit flavors remain, with delightful lime acidity and caramel sweetness to round it out.

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About This Coffee

Flavors: Raspberry, lime, caramel

Sourced from: Nariño, Colombia

Elevation grown: 1800 Meters

Producers: Yorgeny Torres

Varietals: Colombia

Harvested: 2023

Process: Anaerobic Washed

Yorgeny’s coffee is technically an anaerobic washed coffee, which she has been doing long before it was the cool new thing. After the ripe coffee cherry has been pulped, she ferments them in sealed pickle barrels, where the low oxygen environment promotes more desirable flavors. She carefully manages the pH and brix to know when exactly when to pull the coffee for washing. The end result is a very clean, complex cup with more pronounced, punchy fruit flavors.

Nariño, Colombia

Yorgeny Torres’s plot is part of a 2 hectare family farm, Finca La Indonesia, in Nariño that she maintains with her three siblings: Juan Angel, Gabriel and Frank. Inherited from their father Arbey Torres, the family has been producing coffee for over 50 years. Distinct from the rest of Colombia, which harvests coffee year round, Nariño has an Andean climate that results in a distinct harvest season. Coffee producers there are much smaller, and local biodiversity and soil health is maintained.

Yorgeny and her siblings have embraced what makes Nariño special by focusing on cup quality and environmental protection. They’ve approached this on multiple fronts, cultivating new and old varietals, reducing chemical inputs and introducing organic material to the soils, encouraging bee activity and planting more shade trees.

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