Sudan Rume
Natural "Napoleon"
Finca Las Margaritas, Cafe Granja La Esperanza

Tastes Like: Grape, Complex Berry, Purple Florals

Origin: Finca Las Margaritas, Caicedonia, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Variety: Sudan Rume

Producer: Rigoberto and Luis Eduardo Herrera, Café Granja La Esperanza

Elevation: 1,570–1,850 MASL

Process: Natural "Napoleon"

Farm and Producer

Brothers Rigoberto and Luis Eduardo Herrera grow Sudan Rume at Finca Las Margaritas in Caicedonia, Valle del Cauca. Their family began growing coffee at nearby Potosí, where their father planted three new varieties in 1945. At Las Margaritas, the brothers grow Sudan Rume alongside Gesha and Sidra across a farm that rises from 1,570 to 1,850 meters.

Variety

Sudan Rume takes its name from the Rume area of South Sudan’s Boma Plateau, where researchers collected coffee seed in 1941. Breeders later used it as a parent of the Centroamericano hybrid. At Las Margaritas, the Herreras grow and harvest Sudan Rume as a variety in its own right.

Processing

Café Granja La Esperanza uses the same Napoleón protocol for Sudan Rume and Gesha. The team adds 5–10% coffee must, the liquid collected from earlier Gesha fermentations, to whole Sudan Rume cherries and ferments them anaerobically for 168 hours. The team then dries the whole cherries mechanically for 3 days at 38–40°C and finishes drying them in the sun on beds for 12–15 days.