Quest Speciality

Castillo Strawberry & Mandarin - Coming Soon

Whole beans 200 g

COMING SOON — e-commerce for this coffee opens shortly!

Strawberry, mandarin & honey

Castillo is Colombia’s workhorse, bred for rust resistance and rarely associated with complexity. Our circular protocol reveals a completely different side of it.

A floral, honeyed fragrance leads to strawberry and red fruit, then mandarin and panela in the cup. Citric acidity, a smooth body and a syrupy finish. A light roast built for filter, and proof of what the protocol can do for everyday varieties.

  • Score: 86.25 pts (TECNiCAFÉ) — Colombia 02
  • Partner: TECNiCAFÉ
  • Altitude: 1,900 m.a.s.l.
  • Farm: Hacienda Supracafé (Finca Los Naranjos), Cauca
  • Variety: Castillo
  • Origin: Cajibío, Cauca, Colombia
  • Process: KAKAW KAPE™
  • Roast: Light, Agtron 70.2
  • Flavour: Strawberry, red fruit and mandarin with honey, caramel and panela.
  • Format: 200 g whole beans

Coming soon.

Colombia 02 — a single, isolated microlot from Finca Los Naranjos in Cajibío, Cauca, picked and processed on its own, never blended with other harvests. Castillo is Colombia's workhorse variety, bred for rust resistance and rarely linked to complexity — our circular KAKAW KAPE™ protocol, developed with TECNiCAFÉ, reveals a completely different side of it. Score: 86.25 pts (TECNiCAFÉ).

A groundbreaking coffee-processing innovation, which patent has been filed in EU. This new processing method integrates elements of fine cacao with wet and thermo-shock processing methods using 0 water, replacying it with upcycled cacao-fruit often dicarded as waste, producing 0 waste water contamination and unlocking new flavour compounds in coffee through two anaerobic co-fermentations with more than 120 hours, one short aerobic and thermo-shock drying in raised drying beds.

Acidity
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Sweetness
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Bitterness
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Flavor profile

Strawberry, red fruit and mandarin with honey, caramel and panela

Roast profile
LIGHTMEDIUMDARK

Cool, dry, dark & airtight container.