so I'm meeting three people from a
production company for a TV show I can't
talk about I can't tell you too much
right now but we're going to Columbia
we're gonna go and film some stuff
together I'm gonna try to explain
something about copy television what am
I doing here on a hillside in winner you
flew me to Bogota spend my kind of weird
day there flew there that evening on
turn over stay the night there mm in the
morning drove down to pit alito city
near where were visiting this button
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little holster
catch the views we're here to perform
it's a film I have four minutes to
explain on national television why good
coffee costs more and why it's worth
spending extra money on it right now for
on the farm belonging to a guy called
Don Alfonso let's call Esperanza and
we're gonna film some picking it's gonna
happen down below me here it's also a
pretty great spot to talk about altitude
because it's pretty steep on the
hillsides here so we're gonna cover a
few different aspects of what happens on
this farm all the way through to him
delivering the dry parchment and as
capping the coffee together and along
the way I hope I get to explore a few of
the things that I find interesting about
coffee in this part of the world they've
had a pretty late harvest and that
harvest is pretty big as a result the
trees are a little weak also suffering
just a little bit of rust not a lot but
some have definitely dropped their
leaves at this point the pick is
actually on their fourth pass of the
farm of maybe five then the next one
will probably be just to collect
overripe Sun derives to stop them
falling to the ground because brokkr
little insects they eat coffee from the
inside out or a bit of a problem and
leaving for it lying around is a sort of
invitation for Braco
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so now the chose that have been packed
we're gonna bring them here this is a
little beneficio on dum Alphonsus farm
and the first thing we're gonna do is
float them which means you put them in a
tank anything that floats is unripe over
all right I'm gonna get rid of that
anything that sinks that's gonna head on
down and be popped
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so this is a pretty great example of a
small farm doing interesting stuff here
it's fermented and then right now
they're washing the coffee then they'll
spread it out here on these roots and
this is it this is a small farm
producing coffee all the way down to
sort of parchment
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we're a little town called Palestina
which is just outside of Toledo and
we're gonna go to the Caravela warehouse
where they receive parchment coffee I'm
looking grading and some sample roasting
and that Custer so this is the quality
control knob here at Palestinian is
caravans offices here
southwestern running behind me and then
resume when there comes my office
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so the reason I chose to come to Korea
in the first place is because of the
coffee's here my whole coffee life have
drunk coffees from this region and just
loved them loves the kind of fruit love
the kind of sweetness that they have it
is kind of all of the fruit of a Kenya
and then all of that crazy sweetness for
born coffees it was kind of a they're
kind of like a perfect blend of
everything I love not every region has a
taste profile many regions are just
growing regions but the geographic but
it's not taste we know it definitely is
one where you can taste that the copy'
comes from this place and for me coming
here I kind of wanted the chance to try
and understand why it tasted that way is
it the varieties is if the soil is if
the altitude I wanted to understand what
it is that makes coffees from this
region taste the way that they do that
was the motivation for me to pick this
place this place to come with the TV
crew to try and share a little bit about
what makes good coffee what goes into
good coffee to share with a much much
wider audience
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