Since our first visit with Urpania and tasting the coffee her family produces, we have been amazed with their efforts to improve quality on their farm, including building parabolic dryers and taking pride in their farm management. More recently, the family has expanded their holdings with the purchase of a small plot of land near friend and producer Benjamin Paz’s farm, high up on Santa Bárbara mountain. The Guzman family has planted high quality varieties on this plot and have been caring for this farm, and this, along with the farm’s proximity to Benjamin’s Cup of Excellence-winning farm, means that we’re extremely excited for the future of Urpania’s coffees.

Urpania’s coffee this year is sweet like orange and brown sugar, with a botanical quality that to us is so characteristic of the coffees grown on the Santa Bárbara mountain.