Gimme! Coffee Colombia Las Mingas
This is one of Gimme! Coffee’s relationship coffees. This is not a single-farm coffee, but is from a collection of farmers involved in the Las Mingas Project in Narino, Colombia. In the past, Terroir Coffee has sold coffee from one of the specific growers of this group of farms, Maria Santos.
I’ve been drinking this coffee for about a week now, and I’m still not sure what I think of it. At first, it didn’t do much for me. It struck me as very coarse and not very bright tasting.
After a few days of drinking it regularly though, it’s beginning to open up to me, or perhaps vice versa. In general, it’s not one of my favorite Gimme! coffees thus far, but I’m beginning to enjoy it. The nose is very earthy and somewhat chocolatey. The taste is all right, with some milk chocolate and some soft fruitiness at the end. That fruit, almost like grapefruit, carries through on the finish accompanied by a subtle sweetness. The acidity is not very bright, instead coming through pretty soft. I really do like the finish though.
This coffee is tasty in a very subtle way. It’s grown on me quite a bit thus far, and I have about 1/2 a pound left, so I’ll be interested to see what I think about it after another few days.
Gimme! refers to this as a “Relationship Coffee“, as opposed to the term “Direct Trade Coffee” that is used by Intelligentsia and Stumptown. I think that’s an interesting choice of words. Does it mean anything different? At this point, I don’t think it does.
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