Edinson Elias Muñoz Sudan Rume • Washed

Edinson Elias Muñoz has been growing coffee in San Agustín for thirty years. Finca Pensilvania has been in the Muñoz family for roughly a century, its name tracing back to the community of Pensilvania in Caldas, where the family originally migrated from. Here, Edinson has been cultivating several rare varieties, including Java, Laurina, Geisha, & Sudan Rume.

Sudan Rume, an heirloom variety originally from the Sudan-Ethiopia border region, is known for low yields and high sensitivity to disease, which has kept it rare even as demand has grown. What it offers in the cup, however, is floral aromatics and fruit-forward clarity that more vigorous varieties rarely match.

Edinson's washed process is deliberate and layered. Freshly harvested cherries undergo a 48-hour whole-cherry fermentation in sealed barrels before de-pulping, followed by a second 36-hour fermentation in open tanks. After a thorough washing and rinse, the coffee is then moved to a solar dryer on raised beds for 40 days.

This lot placed 3rd in the Southern Division of the 2025 Copa de Oro, an annual producer competition organized by our partners at Osito Coffee across three divisions of southern Huila. Over 200 smallholder producers submit samples each year; lots are pre-screened by Osito's Colombia-based team before an international panel of judges evaluates sixty finalists across multiple days of blind cupping. The competition was designed to surface exceptional producers who might otherwise lack access to the global specialty market and to reward quality at the farm level with meaningfully higher prices. This is our third year participating in and helping to judge the Copa de Oro, and Edinson's placement is a fitting recognition of the quality that Finca Pensilvania has been quietly producing for decades.

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