Colombia Diego Lopez Nariño El Tambo Washed 2025

Finca San Francisco and Diego Lopez

Diego Lopez, a passionate coffee producer from El Tambo, Nariño, cultivates exceptional high-altitude coffee using sustainable farming practices to preserve soil health and meticulous processing techniques that conserve water and reduce the environmental impact of coffee processing.

Nestled high up in the Andean mountains at 1,800 to 2,100masl, Finca San Francisco benefits from cool temperatures and volcanic soil, allowing slow cherry maturation to enhance sweetness and complexity. He chose washed processing to highlight the incredible terroir of this lot, which shines in a layered cup profile featuring notes of dark chocolate, caramel, fig, grape, and citrus. Committed to quality and sustainability, Diego works closely with his community to improve farming practices and showcase El Tambo as a premier specialty coffee region in Colombia.

Nariño Green Coffee Beans

Coffee from Nariño, Colombia, is celebrated for its bright acidity, complex sweetness, and well-balanced cup profile, influenced by the region’s high altitudes, rich volcanic soil, and unique microclimate. Due to its proximity to the equator, Nariño experiences intense daytime sunlight and cold nighttime temperatures, enhancing sugar development and depth of flavor in coffee cherries. Smallholder farmers, like those in El Tambo, meticulously cultivate and process their coffee using washed, natural, and honey methods, ensuring clarity, cleanliness, and quality in every cup.

Green Coffee from Colombia

Over half a million families dedicate their livelihoods to producing unroasted Colombia green coffee on small farms that dot the country’s volcanic mountain ranges. As the world’s third-largest producing country, the volume, quality, and variety that comes out of Colombia year-round is staggering.

According to the USDA, the overall production growth of 6.1 percent for the 2023/2024 harvest remains modest due to reduced coffee renovation areas in 2022, driven by high coffee prices, leading to lower productivity. Dry conditions also negatively impacted young coffee trees and lower-altitude plantations, increasing coffee borer infestations and the production of smaller, underdeveloped beans. Colombia currently has around 840,000 hectares of coffee farms, mostly smallholder-run, with two peak harvest periods: the main harvest from October to December and the secondary “mitaca” harvest from April to June, primarily in the central coffee region. Coffee from Colombia is never dull, and with 16 coffee-producing regions along three mountain ranges and two harvests each year, Colombia always has fresh coffee on hand. Read more in our Colombian Coffee Origin Report.