El Diviso Sidra - Colombia Filter

Nestor Lasso and his brother Adrian took over the family business 5 years ago and turned to speciality and experimentation.
Instead of just growing coffee like their parents. Today, at the ages of 22 and 24, the two have joined forces with Jhoan Vergara, also a coffee farmer's child, and other coffee farmers to create El Diviso. El Diviso unites the two family farms El Diviso (Nestor and Adrian Lasso) and Las Flores (Jhoan Vergara), near the town of Pitalito in the Huila region of Colombia.
This partnership was great because these 3 young people used their knowledge to improve quality.
Three years ago, Cat and Pierre, the founders of CATA Export and the three
producers began to improve fermentation processes and protocols on the farm with the aim of selling these coffees directly to the UK market. This learning process was time-consuming and costly, but with an exciting result, as today these coffees will be used in many barista competitions across Europe.
Recently they won first place in the Brewers Cup in Ireland and third place in Austria.
Today, Cata Export and Finca El Diviso work as one team. Nestor and Cat's friendship is a good example of Cata Export's work.
Working directly on the farms is a very important process for them, as not only the complexity of issues like growing conditions, but also
existing relationships ultimately result in economic benefits for the Cata community. In this way, many more young growers like Nestor have stayed in the coffee industry and had the chance to build a career for themselves.