Finca La Victoria

The oldest of the plantations in the Caribbean region, La Victoria was founded in 1892 by a Anglo German family.The farm uses water to power a collection of pipes to bring the coffee berries in from the fields, sort them, and move them between the different stages of production.

Above the processing center, the hillsides are thickly covered in coffee plants.After the plants flower, coffee berries take about eight months to ripen on the bush.

Workers pick the berries by hand and load them into the water pipes, which carry them from the hills down to the processing cente.The plantation sells a limited amount of its top product to shops and tourists in Minca, but the majority of the best beans are exported to Nespresso

Luckly today i have the pleasure of being accompanied around the farm by its owner Claudia.

The tour around the farm is very informative and Claudia,s memories and anecdotes add a human connection with the industrial processes that are undertaken on the farm.

The farms coffee beans are sold wholsale to international buyers. Generally you cannot buy their coffee ready roasted, but you can get it here at the finca if you visit. Freshly roasted and ground coffee was prepared for us while we were doing the walk around the farm to sample and we all were given, 500 gram samples to take away with us. this was a nice gesture, much apreciated by all of us.

This has been the most authentic and interesting thing i have done so far on my journey so far.

If you want to expierience the real feel of life in this part of Columbia.I highly recomend a visit to Finca Victoria 1892, along with a visit to the village of Minca, (which you have too travel through to reach the farm), i promise you will not be dissapointed.