Carlos Arcila

Taste the worst and best of Colombian coffee at Cofinet event

Cofinet will host a cupping of The Worst and the Best of Colombian Coffee in Melbourne on 20 September and Adelaide on 24 September. The educational events will touch base on the evolution of Colombian coffees and include tastings of the coffees from Colombia’s coffee growing regions.
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Cofinet: the coffee hunters

Carlos Arcila is a farmer first and a businessman second. As a child, he recalls riding horses with his grandfather through the fields of coffee trees in Armenia, Colombia and stopping to taste the different cherries on the farm. “From a young age I learnt how to distinguish different types of coffee varietals based on their leaf size and shapes. We’d pick a ripe cherry off the tree, pop it into our mouths, and spit out the seed,” Carlos says. 
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