EL RECREO, PINK BOURBON, COLOMBIA - FILTER COFFEE

El Recreo is a washed-process coffee of the Pink Bourbon variety, grown by Dario Rodriguez. Its flavor profile reveals exotic fruitiness, cherry notes, floral characteristics, and a pleasant sweetness, a highly complex and top-quality coffee that is hard to match! This coffee helped us to secure victory in the 'Nordics Best Roaster' -competition during the spring of 2024 at the Nordic Coffee Festival.

At the end of 2025, Lauri and Aleksi traveled to Colombia. We did not manage to reach his plantations on that trip, but Dario came to meet us in the town of Gigante. We got to know the gentleman behind the coffee, and we agreed that on our next trip we would visit him so that we can see the El Recreo farm and meet his wife, Ines Maria, who also works on the farm.

Dario comes from a family of coffee farmers and inherited the El Recreo farm from his parents. He has been working in coffee since 1975, starting as a helper on the farm under his parents guidance. Seven years ago, Dario decided to focus on specialty coffee as a way to improve his family’s quality of life. Thanks to his parents' knowledge and his own studies, he had a strong foundation to begin enhancing the quality of the coffee produced on his farm. This dedication is evident in his coffees, which are clean, complex, and flavorful.

Finca El Recreo is located in the Huila region, in the municipality of Gigante, at an altitude of 1,670 meters. Of the farm’s 16 hectares, 10 are dedicated to coffee cultivation. Alongside Pink Bourbon, Dario also grows Caturra, Colombia, and Castillo varieties. The coffee undergoes a washed process, followed by 40 hours of fermentation and drying in the sun on raised beds.