Bolivia: La Avanzada

Tasting notes

In the roaster’s words

Bolivia: La Avanzada, Honey, Typica, Caturra and Catuai Raspberry , blackberry and redcurrant layer up in the cup like a summer berry medley, bright and juicy from the first sip, before shifting to a sweet cooked apple finish. This is the third and final coffee that we’ve released from Jeivert’s neck of the woods this year and we think that it’s a truly delicious Bolvian coffee. This particular lot is a Honey processed mix of Catuai, Caturra, and Typica, all grown on Jeivert’s own farm La Avanzada and processed at his mill. Off The Beaten Track The remote, 200-hectare region of Irupana sits in the South Yungas province towards the most westerly edge of Bolivia, nestled among the Andes mountain range that straddles the edge of the country. It’s to the south of Caranavi, the largest coffee-growing region in the country, and boasts a similar verdant (albeit slightly drier), high-altitude terrain that make excellent conditions for growing coffee, reflected in the region’s strong history of coffee farming. Farms in Irupana are small (on average around 5 hectares) and around 1,800 people live locally. We’ve only sourced coffee from the region a handful of times in previous years. It’s common for coffee from more remote areas of Bolivia to be blended lots, often made up of contributions from multiple smallholders, which means we can’t always trace the coffee back to individual farms. Thanks to improved traceability and deeper collaboration with the Sol de la Mañana program, we’re now seeing more availability of single-producer lots like this one from Jeivert. Roland was particularly excited about this new development for our 2025 harvest Bolivian coffees and said, "It’s a significant step forward - not just for transparency, but for recognising the skill and dedication of individual farmers whose work could otherwise go unnamed". Revolutionary Coffee Jeivert is a 2nd generation coffee producer and has 5 Hectares of coffee at his farm, La Avanzada. Meaning "The Advance". This name came about because Irupana was the home of Pedro Domingo Murillo, a 18th Century figure who is credited as an early revolutionary and patriot for the independence movement of Bolivia from Spanish rule. As this area is a little further away from Caranavi than most of the small producers we buy from in the Yungas, it means that it’s not practical to process the coffee at the Buena Vista Mill. The other Bolivian producers we buy from are processed by Agricafe, either at Buena Vista in Caran

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Single-producer lot grown on Jeivert's farm La Avanzada and processed at his mill.