Colombia Suspiros

This lot features Tabi, a variety developed by Colombia's National Coffee Research Institute, CENICAFÉ, to boost yields and improve resistance to disease. CENICAFÉ released Tabi to much fanfare in 2002, but then released its Castillo variety just three years later. In less than a decade, the Castillo variety became the most common coffee variety in Colombia, and Tabi was virtually obsolete.. When Libardo Pepicano planted it at his Suspiros farm, he joined a small but growing movement of quality-