Finca El Suelo Ethiopian Landrace

Tim Wendelboe's own farm. 110 trees. 48 kilos in the world.

Finca El Suelo is Tim Wendelboe's seven-hectare farm in El Vegón, El Pital, sitting at 1,650–1,700m in Huila, Colombia, right beside the famous Finca Tamana. This lot comes from Ethiopian landrace trees Tim planted in 2019 from seed out of Gilberto Baraona's cultivar garden at Los Pirineos. It is the farm's fifth harvest — and with only 110 trees in production, the entire crop came to just 48kg of green coffee.

Tasting notes: Floral · citrus · baking spice.

The variety

DNA analysis found these trees to be genetically diverse, carrying markers of Ethiopian landraces alongside the Typica/Bourbon mother population — so Typica, Bourbon and even SL-28 may all be in the mix. Subtler than a classic washed Ethiopian, but unmistakably Ethiopian in character.

How it's grown & processed

Hand-picked and sorted by Yurany Roa Sanchez and a small team, then processed in tiny batches: hand de-pulped, fermented 14–16 hours overnight in clean buckets, washed, soaked 24 hours, and dried slowly on shaded raised beds for 20–25 days until moisture fell below 11%. Every picking was cupped separately and only the best lots made the final selection.

Brew it

Filter only. 60–70g per litre of water. Fresh water, a digital scale, ground just before brewing.

Roasted in Oslo by Tim Wendelboe, imported fresh by Bean Shipper · ships within a week · whole bean, 100% specialty arabica, at its best 2–3 weeks after the roast date.