Colombia El Vergel Guava Banana

Guava, Banana, Framboise, Champagne Truffle This anaerobic natural from Tolima, Colombia flirts with being too good. It's sugar-sweet, tropical bright, and packed—as the name suggests—with notes of Guava and Banana. It comes via MFC's direct relationship with one of the world's best farms, El Vergel Estate. To call El Vergel's coffees mind-blowing underplays their complexity. They're flavor-bomb brews that smack of prodigy production. (It doesn't hurt that the El Vergel folks are insanely nice, too). So what makes El Vergel's "Guava Banana" so good? Well, first, there's the coffee itself: a blue-chip batch of pure Caturra. The quality of the harvest alone is enough to elevate the brew, but the processing kicks the whole thing into an otherworldly space. Shady Bayter, El Vergel's boundary-pushing producer, describes his method as "Anaerobic Natural," but the label minimizes the complexity. Detailing every process step would require a leather-bound tome, but here's a (woefully simplistic