Colombia Sweet Valley

Roasted to order — ships within 1 week of your roast date. These beans hit their peak around 2 to 3 weeks after roasting, so there's no rush to brew. 100% specialty arabica.

A juicy natural Colombia that tastes like candy apple in the cup

Colombia Sweet Valley is a naturally processed single origin grown at 1,800 masl on Finca Potosi in Valle del Cauca, at the renowned Café Granja La Esperanza. Built for filter and capable of a fruit-forward espresso, it leads with candy apple, plum and hibiscus — a bright, juicy cup for brewers who chase fruit.

Tasting Notes

Candy Apple · Plum · Hibiscus
Medium-bodied with a soft, sweet acidity and a clean, fruit-driven finish that lingers like ripe stone fruit.

Coffee Details

About This Coffee

This is a natural-processed lot of the Colombia variety from the Potosi farm at Café Granja La Esperanza. The Colombia variety is a hybrid of Caturra and the influential Híbrido de Timor, an Arabica–Robusta cross that lends strong disease resistance. Released by Colombia's national coffee research centre, Cenicafé, in the mid-1980s, it gave growers rust resistance alongside improved flavour. The cup here is all fruit: a juicy, sweet profile that's harder to find as fresh-crop fruity coffees go.

The processing does the heavy lifting. Ripe cherries are fermented under controlled conditions for around 15 hours, then moved to a dehumidifier for a further 72 hours until fully dried — slow, careful work that locks in the candy apple and plum character.

Potosi's story runs deep. In 1930, Israel Correa and Carmen Rosa Vega settled in Valle del Cauca in search of land to farm, and acquired Potosi. By 1945 they had introduced Yellow Bourbon, Red Bourbon and Caturra alongside the existing Typica. Two of their eleven children, Rigoberto and Luis, took a particular interest in coffee and steered the farm toward organic production in the late 1990s. Today five farms make up Café Granja La Esperanza — Cerro Azul, Las Margaritas, La Esperanza, Potosi and Hawaii — with a reputation for competition-winning coffees produced by matching processing methods to varieties. Potosi alone carries some 188,725 trees across 52 hectares, split into ten lots growing Sidra, Mandela, San Juan, Castillo and Colombia.

How to Brew Colombia Sweet Valley

Filter

Espresso

Dial it to taste: if the cup tastes sharp or thin, grind a little finer; if it turns bitter or dries out, grind coarser.

How Much Coffee Is in a Bag?

Brewed as filter at about 15g per cup, a 250g bag makes roughly 16 cups and a 1kg bag around 65 cups. Because this is a small natural-processed single origin from one farm, every bag is a limited run — when the fresh crop is gone, it's gone, so it's worth savouring while it lasts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Colombia Sweet Valley better as espresso or filter?
Filter shows it best — that's where the candy apple, plum and hibiscus really sing. It also pulls a fruit-forward, juicy espresso if you prefer a lighter, more expressive shot over a classic dark profile.

What does it taste like?
Bright and juicy. Expect candy apple and ripe plum up front, a floral hibiscus lift, soft sweet acidity and a clean fruity finish. It's a fruit-led cup rather than a heavy, chocolatey one.

How fresh is it?
We roast to order and ship within one week of your roast date. The beans reach their peak around 2 to 3 weeks after roasting, so they're ready to brew the moment they arrive and stay great for weeks.

Why is it called a natural process?
The cherries are dried whole with the fruit still on the bean, rather than washed clean first. That extra fruit contact during drying is what gives Sweet Valley its big, sweet, candy-like character.

Do you offer free shipping?
Yes. Free shipping within Malaysia on orders over RM80. Everything is roasted fresh in Kuala Lumpur and sent straight to your door.

Want to try before committing? Explore the Taster Box. Buying for an office or café? See Bulk & Office Orders.