Kaleidoscope

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Our house blend, Kaleidoscope, is the perfect balance of juicy berry fruit flavours with layers of rich chocolate and a tantalising orange acidity. 

In this blend, three coffees combine beautifully into a moreish espresso or long black but also gives no quarter when paired with milk to make a creamy, delicious milkshake of a latte or flat white. While we have labelled this as an espresso blend it will certainly not leave you wanting if brewed in a cafetiére or a filter.

Coffee is seasonal and we adjust the coffees in the blend throughout the year in line with harvests in different parts of the world. This is version 11 of Kaleidoscope.

Tasting notes
Red Berries, Chocolate, Orange

Blend
45% La Llamarada 
35% La Magdalena
20% Jhon Wilmer

Country
Nicaragua & Colombia

Variety/Cultivar
Catuai, Castillo, Caturra, Colombia & Papayo

Process
Natural, washed & anaerobic natural

Altitude
1300 – 1900 masl

La Llamarada
In the North of Nicaragua in the Nueva Segovia department is La Esperanza, the famous coffee farm of Carlos Alexander Lopez Pastrana. As a young boy, Carlos used to help his grandfather on this farm and fell in love with it, learning all he could from him. Once his grandfather passed away he purchased the farm and began his own journey. After an initial tough few years he moved into producing much more speciality grade coffee. With education and help from others he really managed to improve the farm to the famous status it now has. 

With flavours of red berries and chocolate we knew this  coffee was perfect for Kaleidoscope as soon as we tried it. 

La Magdalena
Around 250 farmers in the municipality of Pitalito, in the Huila department of Colombia, come together to deliver this exceptional coffee. The convergence of the Magdalena river creates many different micro-climates in this region, leading to many different flavour profiles that come from this region which is considered the largest coffee producing part of Colombia.

This washed coffee brings bursts of orange like acidity peeking out over a solid and moreish stone fruit and blackcurrant base. Being a washed coffee, it is super clean and crisp with a very transparent flavour profile.

Jhon Wilmer
Coffee is a family affair for the Wilmers. Their farm Las Brisas sits high up on the slopes of Colombia's Eastern cordillera in the famous coffee producing region of Huila. Jhon has spent a lot of time learning as much as he can about cultivation, fermentation and coffee tasting with an aim to elevate the farm's coffees. He oversees that side of the farm while his brother-in-law looks after the processing and his parents look after the harvest labour logistics. 

This coffee is pretty wild and adds in the last little bit of red berries and zing to the blend.