"Río Dulce Gesha" by José Julián Giraldo — Cafe 1959 x Roaster of the Year 2022
Tastes like: Candied Lemon | Papaya | Dried Mango | White Florals & Tea-like
Roasted by Little Waves Coffee — Roaster of the Year 2022
The son of a food scientist, José Julian Giraldo builds upon a foundation of best-in-class farm management, using selection and experimentation to create peak coffee flavor. He processes coffee with techniques unique to him, at times bucking trends. He follows the path the flavor innate to the coffee cherries and terroir takes him, employing his raised beds, particular processing and dry timings, and refrigeration rooms to enhance and feature the terroirs of selections from rare and challenging varieties.
The brand “1959” is named in honor of the year of his mother’s birth.
Roasted this high altitude Gesha light and fast to feature delicate florals, sweet candy notes, and bright acidity, with just enough development to elicit a balanced sweetness.
Name: Río Dulce Gesha
Producer: José Julián Giraldo, Café 1959
Region: Pijao, Quindío, Colombia
Farm: Finca Las Marias
Process: Washed
Variety: Gesha
Altitude: 2,050 MASL
Tastes like: Candied Lemon | Papaya | Dried Mango | White Florals & Tea-like
Roasted by Little Waves Coffee — Roaster of the Year 2022
The son of a food scientist, José Julian Giraldo builds upon a foundation of best-in-class farm management, using selection and experimentation to create peak coffee flavor. He processes coffee with techniques unique to him, at times bucking trends. He follows the path the flavor innate to the coffee cherries and terroir takes him, employing his raised beds, particular processing and dry timings, and refrigeration rooms to enhance and feature the terroirs of selections from rare and challenging varieties.
The brand “1959” is named in honor of the year of his mother’s birth.
Roasted this high altitude Gesha light and fast to feature delicate florals, sweet candy notes, and bright acidity, with just enough development to elicit a balanced sweetness.
Name: Río Dulce Gesha
Producer: José Julián Giraldo, Café 1959
Region: Pijao, Quindío, Colombia
Farm: Finca Las Marias
Process: Washed
Variety: Gesha
Altitude: 2,050 MASL
Tastes like: Candied Lemon | Papaya | Dried Mango | White Florals & Tea-like
Roasted by Little Waves Coffee — Roaster of the Year 2022
The son of a food scientist, José Julian Giraldo builds upon a foundation of best-in-class farm management, using selection and experimentation to create peak coffee flavor. He processes coffee with techniques unique to him, at times bucking trends. He follows the path the flavor innate to the coffee cherries and terroir takes him, employing his raised beds, particular processing and dry timings, and refrigeration rooms to enhance and feature the terroirs of selections from rare and challenging varieties.
The brand “1959” is named in honor of the year of his mother’s birth.
Roasted this high altitude Gesha light and fast to feature delicate florals, sweet candy notes, and bright acidity, with just enough development to elicit a balanced sweetness.
Name: Río Dulce Gesha
Producer: José Julián Giraldo, Café 1959
Region: Pijao, Quindío, Colombia
Farm: Finca Las Marias
Process: Washed
Variety: Gesha
Altitude: 2,050 MASL
ABOUT THE FARM:
Finca Las
Marias sits in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, where two thermal equators meet.
Here, coffee grows in all stages on branches all year long. These external factors,
including soil, clouds, rain patterns, and Coffea arabica-loving temperature ranges, make
for the ideal place to plant and nourish the most select coffees in the world.
The sun rises over the Andes, crosses down the valley, over the Finca- situated on a
steep Northwestern slope. In the afternoon, the sun crosses over the mountain to the valley
behind. Above, billowy clouds circulate, seemingly in place via the vortex created by the valley. The warmth from the intense period of direct sun, then shade and cool of night,
create desirable stress on the coffee, pushing the shrubs’ existential resources -
sugars - to its seeds, a kind of evolutionary defense mechanism, bringing sweetness to
the ripening coffee cherries.
José Giraldo planted Gesha starting at 2050 masl, trailing from the peak of his farm
in layers down makeshift steps toward the river valley below. Walking through the
sections of Gesha, shrubs selected and cultivated over ten years, one tastes the ripe
cherries. The fruit shows delicate and sweet florals, similar to those in roasted Gesha
coffee.
ABOUT THE ROASTER
Little Waves Coffee Roasters is an award-winning, impact-driven group of thinkers, dreamers, and doers who delight in the enduring power of coffee as a shared experience. By making small, determined reverberations through sourcing, roasting, and brewing, they add an open-hearted energy to the tides that reveal and uphold the beauty of coffee and life.
They are a small, independent, and Latina co-owned operation driven by quality, service, and heart. Women-forward, the team proudly reflects a diversity of cultures, genders, languages, faiths, and beliefs. Each bag of beans they bring supports producers and farmers, empowering them to build stability and continue growing the exceptional beans they share with you.
Every decision they make honors people, places, cultures, and histories. Their roasts and drinks are named after places that spark wonder, hold cultural significance, and reflect the people and places they love. In 2022, Little Waves Coffee Roasters was proud to be named Micro Roaster of the Year, a testament to their dedication to craft and community.
