Our first Cricks Corner × Conscious collab comes from Luz Ángela Rojas and her partner, Edinson Argote. Together, through their joint project, Quebreditas, they’ve been pushing the boundaries with processing and producing some of the most exciting lots coming out of Colombia right now. This one is a real treat: a caturra chiroso that bursts with mango, cherry and strawberry. A proper fruit parade!
Luz Ángela grew up on her family’s coffee farm, Chorro Alto, but initially took a different path, studying at university and working in healthcare for several years. Covid brought her back home, and once she was there, she threw herself into improving and innovating the farm’s practices.
Meanwhile, Edinson was deep in the world of processing, honing his expertise as Head of Quality at one of Colombia’s most pioneering coffee farms. Together they formed Quebreditas, where they’ve since been exploring considered, quality-driven approaches to coffee processing.
This Caturra Chiroso was grown at Chorro Alto, then processed using methods the pair have developed at Quebreditas — resulting in this fun, fruit-packed belter.
Harvested cherries are first floated in water to remove green, overripe or dried fruit. They then go into a sealed tank to ferment for 48 hours. After that, water is added (kept below 25°C) for a further 48-hour fermentation. Finally, the coffee is mechanically dried at 38°C for 72 hours.
We purchased this coffee through Jonny Martinez and his import company, Mi Café Trading. It arrived in the UK in November 2026. We first met Jonny over Zoom in May 2024 and have since purchased and roasted several caturra lots from his own farm, Finca El Jaragual. This year, we’re excited to also be roasting coffees he’s sourcing from other Colombian producers with whom he works closely.
We believe transparency around pricing is essential to supporting a more equitable specialty coffee supply chain. The cost of getting coffee from farm to roastery can vary widely depending on its origin and the route it takes to reach us. The figures we share reflect this: when we buy through an importer, we publish the price we paid them; when we work more directly with producers or exporters, we publish the price paid to the exporter, and the additional cost of getting the coffee to our roastery.
For further details on the prices below visit our Sourcing Page.
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