Coffee from Ecuador
Ecuador produces very little coffee and almost all of it is expensive: high altitude, small farms, and two showpiece varieties — Sidra and Typica Mejorado — that roasters buy specifically to put on the top shelf.
Loja, Pichincha and Imbabura are the names to watch. Yields are low, labour costs are high by regional standards, and the country's growers responded by going straight for the quality ceiling rather than competing on volume.
The cup at its best is intensely floral and tea-like, with tropical fruit and a syrupy sweetness that survives long fermentations well.
- Coffees in the catalogue
- 2
- Growing regions
- Pichincha
- Processing
- Washed
- Altitude
- 1,850 – 1,900 m
- Common notes
- rose, honeydew, kiwi, mixed berry pie and passionfruit
- Price range
- $31.00 – $80.00
- Roasted by
- 2 roasters
2 Ecuador coffees in the catalogue
- Familia Morales Rivera — Passenger Coffee. rose, honeydew and kiwi. $80.00 / 150 g.
- Sidra — Coava Coffee Roasters. mixed berry pie, passionfruit and mango. $31.00 / 340 g.