Yessica Parra
Farms El Mirador in Huila at around 1,800 metres, working controlled fermentation on aromatic varieties.
- Farm or site
- El Mirador
- Region
- Huila
- Country
- Colombia
Yessica Parra farms El Mirador in Huila, in southern Colombia, at around 1,800 metres.
Huila's conditions do a lot of the early work. Volcanic soil, high ground and a wide swing between day and night temperature mean cherry ripens slowly and builds sugar and aromatic precursors before it's picked. What happens after the picking is where a producer either keeps that or loses it.
Yessica's work is on the keeping. She runs controlled fermentation environments and tracks them rather than working to a clock, then dries on a disciplined protocol built to hold the volatile aromatics the ferment created. The thermal shock lots are the clearest example of that, where the whole method rests on hitting a temperature target at the right moment.
She's planting for it too. Sidra is a low-yielding variety with no disease resistance that only pays off at altitude and only in the cup, which is a deliberate trade rather than an inherited planting.
Huila's conditions do a lot of the early work. Volcanic soil, high ground and a wide swing between day and night temperature mean cherry ripens slowly and builds sugar and aromatic precursors before it's picked. What happens after the picking is where a producer either keeps that or loses it.
Yessica's work is on the keeping. She runs controlled fermentation environments and tracks them rather than working to a clock, then dries on a disciplined protocol built to hold the volatile aromatics the ferment created. The thermal shock lots are the clearest example of that, where the whole method rests on hitting a temperature target at the right moment.
She's planting for it too. Sidra is a low-yielding variety with no disease resistance that only pays off at altitude and only in the cup, which is a deliberate trade rather than an inherited planting.
