Cofinet

Cofinet introduces honey and natural processing to Colombia

Prior to 2015, Colombia produced coffees for quantity, not quality. All of the country’s coffees were washed processed due to a restriction imposed by the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) to promote only cultivars that focused on volume. The aim was “balanced, elegant, and clean” coffee, not exotic.  “The Federation checks every lot that leaves Colombia. If the coffees were found to be anything other than washed processed, it would be rejected,” coffee importing business Cofinet Co-founder and Director Carlos Arcila says. 
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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’s Colombian confidence

Brothers Carlos and Felipe Arcila started Cofinet with high ambitions and realistic expectations. Their first test was to try to sell one container of Colombian coffee in four months. They sold it in 28 days. 
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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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